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9 Tir 1473
Tuesday 9 Tir 1473 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 29 June 2094, and 15 Safar 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
- Persian9 Tir 1473
- Gregorian29 June 2094
- Islamic15 Safar 1518
- Imperial9 Tir 2653
- Day of the year102 of 365
- Left in the year263 days
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Occasions on 9 Tir 1473
- religious
On this day: June 29
Events
- 1613 (413 years ago) The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.
- 1874 (152 years ago) Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
- 1945 (81 years ago) The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
- 1971 (55 years ago) Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union's Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space.
- 1974 (52 years ago) Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
- 1987 (39 years ago) Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
- 2002 (24 years ago) Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
- 2006 (20 years ago) Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
Births
- 1326 (700 years ago) Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (died 1389)
- 1798 (228 years ago) Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (died 1837)
- 1886 (140 years ago) Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1963)
- 1900 (126 years ago) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (died 1944)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Giorgio Napolitano, Italian journalist and politician, 11th President of Italy (died 2023)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (died 2006)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen dentist and politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
- 2003 (23 years ago) Jude Bellingham, English footballer
Deaths
- 1315 (711 years ago) Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (born 1235)
- 1861 (165 years ago) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet and translator (born 1806)
- 1895 (131 years ago) Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (born 1825)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Paul Klee, Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1879)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Katharine Hepburn, American actress (born 1907)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
- 2021 (5 years ago) Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1932)
- 2023 (3 years ago) Alan Arkin, American actor (born 1934)