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24 Aban 1481
Wednesday 24 Aban 1481 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 15 November 2102, and 4 Shawwal 1526 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
- Persian24 Aban 1481
- Gregorian15 November 2102
- Islamic4 Shawwal 1526
- Imperial24 Aban 2661
- Day of the year240 of 365
- Left in the year125 days
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Occasions on 24 Aban 1481
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On this day: November 15
Events
- 1705 (321 years ago) Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.
- 1889 (137 years ago) Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- 1917 (109 years ago) Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia.
- 1933 (93 years ago) Thailand holds its first election.
- 1988 (38 years ago) The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
- 1990 (36 years ago) The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
- 2001 (25 years ago) Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America.
- 2007 (19 years ago) Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
Births
- 1397 (629 years ago) Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1455)
- 1738 (288 years ago) William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (died 1822)
- 1862 (164 years ago) Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
- 1887 (139 years ago) Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (died 1986)
- 1891 (135 years ago) Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)
- 1907 (119 years ago) Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (died 1944)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (died 2021)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician
Deaths
- 1280 (746 years ago) Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (born 1193)
- 1630 (396 years ago) Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1571)
- 1670 (356 years ago) John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (born 1592)
- 1908 (118 years ago) Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (born 1835)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1858)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (born 1901)