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29 Shahrivar 1480
Tuesday 29 Shahrivar 1480 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 20 September 2101, and 26 Rajab 1525 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
- Persian29 Shahrivar 1480
- Gregorian20 September 2101
- Islamic26 Rajab 1525
- Imperial29 Shahrivar 2660
- Day of the year184 of 365
- Left in the year181 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearHen
Occasions on 29 Shahrivar 1480
- international
On this day: September 20
Events
- 1519 (507 years ago) Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition which ultimately culminates in the first circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1697 (329 years ago) The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
- 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
- 1946 (80 years ago) The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
- 1977 (49 years ago) Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- 1988 (38 years ago) Margaret Thatcher delivers the Bruges speech, in which she articulates her opposition to further European integration.
- 1990 (36 years ago) South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2018 (8 years ago) At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Births
- 1833 (193 years ago) Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)
- 1853 (173 years ago) Chulalongkorn, Siamese king (died 1910)
- 1878 (148 years ago) Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1968)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- 1940 (86 years ago) Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
- 1948 (78 years ago) George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short story writer
- 1988 (38 years ago) Khabib Nurmagomedov, Russian mixed martial artist
- 1993 (33 years ago) Julian Draxler, German footballer
Deaths
- 1328 (698 years ago) Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (born 1263)
- 1863 (163 years ago) Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (born 1785)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (born 1819)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (born 1847)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (born 1865)
- 1971 (55 years ago) Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
- 1996 (30 years ago) Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (born 1913)