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28 Aban 1474

Friday 28 Aban 1474 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 18 November 2095, and 20 Rajab 1519 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.

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This day in four calendars

1918 (108 years ago) Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1949 (77 years ago) The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
1970 (56 years ago) U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1971 (55 years ago) Oman declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1991 (35 years ago) After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
1991 (35 years ago) The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia, which would in 1993 become a republic, was established in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1993 (33 years ago) In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
2002 (24 years ago) Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.

1647 (379 years ago) Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (died 1706)
1786 (240 years ago) Carl Maria von Weber, German composer and conductor (probable; died 1826)
1787 (239 years ago) Louis Daguerre, French artist, photographer and inventor (died 1851)
1897 (129 years ago) Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
1923 (103 years ago) Alan Shepard, American astronaut (died 1998)
1939 (87 years ago) Margaret Atwood, Canadian author
1945 (81 years ago) Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 6th President of Sri Lanka
1968 (58 years ago) Owen Wilson, American actor

1886 (140 years ago) Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (born 1829)
1922 (104 years ago) Marcel Proust, French author and critic (born 1871)
1941 (85 years ago) Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
1952 (74 years ago) Paul Éluard, French poet and author (born 1895)
1962 (64 years ago) Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)
1965 (61 years ago) Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and bureaucrat, 33rd Vice President of the United States, 11th US Secretary of Agriculture (born 1888)
1976 (50 years ago) Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter (born 1890)
2002 (24 years ago) James Coburn, American actor (born 1928)