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14 Bahman 1484
Wednesday 14 Bahman 1484 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 3 February 2106, and 28 Muharram 1530 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
- Persian14 Bahman 1484
- Gregorian3 February 2106
- Islamic28 Muharram 1530
- Imperial14 Bahman 2664
- Day of the year320 of 365
- Left in the year45 days
- ZodiacAquarius
- YearOx
Occasions on 14 Bahman 1484
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On this day: February 3
Events
- 1807 (219 years ago) A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
- 1830 (196 years ago) The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
- 1927 (99 years ago) A revolt against the military dictatorship of Portugal breaks out at Porto.
- 1933 (93 years ago) Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Nazi foreign policy.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
- 1959 (67 years ago) Sixty-five people are killed when American Airlines Flight 320 crashes into the East River on approach to LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
- 1989 (37 years ago) A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
- 2014 (12 years ago) A school shooting in Moscow, Russia leaves two people dead and one wounded.
Births
- 1809 (217 years ago) Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1847)
- 1821 (205 years ago) Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician and educator (died 1910)
- 1830 (196 years ago) Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1903)
- 1874 (152 years ago) Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, (died 1946)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre (died 1976)
- 1909 (117 years ago) Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher (died 1943)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Paul Auster, American novelist, essayist, and poet (died 2024)
- 1960 (66 years ago) Joachim Löw, German footballer and manager
Deaths
- 1014 (1012 years ago) Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and England (born 960)
- 1451 (575 years ago) Murad II, Ottoman sultan (born 1404)
- 1468 (558 years ago) Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher, invented the printing press (born 1398)
- 1862 (164 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1774)
- 1924 (102 years ago) Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
- 1956 (70 years ago) Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (born 1871)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (born 1904)
- 2005 (21 years ago) Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (born 1904)