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24 Aban 1488

Friday 24 Aban 1488 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 15 November 2109, and 21 Dhu al-Hijjah 1533 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.

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This day in four calendars

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.

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

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)