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14 Dey 1481

Thursday 14 Dey 1481 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 4 January 2103, and 24 Dhu al-Qa'dah 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

1762 (264 years ago) Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1948 (78 years ago) Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic.
1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time.
1958 (68 years ago) Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 (67 years ago) Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
2004 (22 years ago) Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2008 (18 years ago) A Let L-410 Turbolet crashes in the Los Roques Archipelago in Venezuela, killing 14 people.

1710 (316 years ago) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, violinist, and organist (died 1736)
1785 (241 years ago) Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (died 1863)
1809 (217 years ago) Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (died 1852)
1940 (86 years ago) Gao Xingjian, Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 (86 years ago) Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1963 (63 years ago) Till Lindemann, German singer, songwriter, and poet
1986 (40 years ago) James Milner, English footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Toni Kroos, German footballer

1786 (240 years ago) Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (born 1729)
1877 (149 years ago) Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1794)
1920 (106 years ago) Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright (born 1843)
1941 (85 years ago) Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
1960 (66 years ago) Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
1961 (65 years ago) Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
1965 (61 years ago) T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
2024 (2 years ago) Glynis Johns, British actress and singer (born 1923)