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3 Aban 1474
Monday 3 Aban 1474 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 24 October 2095, and 25 Jumada al-Thani 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.
This day in four calendars
- Persian3 Aban 1474
- Gregorian24 October 2095
- Islamic25 Jumada al-Thani 1519
- Imperial3 Aban 2654
- Day of the year219 of 366
- Left in the year147 days
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Occasions on 3 Aban 1474
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- international
- countries
- fun
On this day: October 24
Events
- 1813 (213 years ago) Treaty of Gulistan: The Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813 comes to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Gulistan, under which terms Qajar Iran agrees to cede the bulk of its Caucasian territories, which comprise much of modern Dagestan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, to the Russian Empire.
- 1851 (175 years ago) William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
- 1857 (169 years ago) Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England.
- 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Caporetto on the Austro-Italian front.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 1947 (79 years ago) Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- 1954 (72 years ago) US President Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
- 1960 (66 years ago) Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100 people, including Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin.
Births
- 51 (1975 years ago) Domitian, Roman emperor (died 96)
- 1632 (394 years ago) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (died 1723)
- 1804 (222 years ago) Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (died 1891)
- 1932 (94 years ago) Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1985 (41 years ago) Wayne Rooney, English footballer
- 1986 (40 years ago) Drake, Canadian rapper and actor
- 1989 (37 years ago) PewDiePie, Swedish YouTuber
Deaths
- 996 (1030 years ago) Hugh Capet, French king
- 1537 (489 years ago) Jane Seymour, English queen and wife of Henry VIII (born c. 1508)
- 1601 (425 years ago) Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (born 1546)
- 1655 (371 years ago) Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1592)
- 1945 (81 years ago) Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (born 1887)
- 1991 (35 years ago) Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (born 1921)
- 2005 (21 years ago) Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (born 1913)
- 2011 (15 years ago) John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (born 1927)