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7 Khordad 1478
Wednesday 7 Khordad 1478 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 27 May 2099, and 6 Rabi' al-Awwal 1523 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
- Persian7 Khordad 1478
- Gregorian27 May 2099
- Islamic6 Rabi' al-Awwal 1523
- Imperial7 Khordad 2658
- Day of the year69 of 366
- Left in the year297 days
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Occasions on 7 Khordad 1478
On this day: May 27
Events
- 1798 (228 years ago) The Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath outside London. A bloodless duel between the prime minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Younger and his political opponent George Tierney.
- 1930 (96 years ago) The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
- 1950 (76 years ago) The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
- 1960 (66 years ago) In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
- 1988 (38 years ago) Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
- 2001 (25 years ago) Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
- 2016 (10 years ago) Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
Births
- 1332 (694 years ago) Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian (died 1406)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (died 1961)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (died 1961)
- 1897 (129 years ago) John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)
- 1907 (119 years ago) Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964)
- 1911 (115 years ago) Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (died 1978)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Deaths
- 1564 (462 years ago) John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (born 1509)
- 1707 (319 years ago) Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (born 1640)
- 1840 (186 years ago) Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
- 1939 (87 years ago) Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)
- 1964 (62 years ago) Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)
- 1987 (39 years ago) John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
- 1988 (38 years ago) Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)