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21 Esfand 1488

Wednesday 21 Esfand 1488 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 12 March 2110, and 20 Rabi' al-Thani 1534 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

1912 (114 years ago) The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1913 (113 years ago) The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
1918 (108 years ago) Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
1930 (96 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
1940 (86 years ago) Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
1968 (58 years ago) Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 (55 years ago) The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
2020 (6 years ago) The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

1685 (341 years ago) George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (died 1753)
1824 (202 years ago) Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (died 1887)
1863 (163 years ago) Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1938)
1922 (104 years ago) Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (died 1969)
1925 (101 years ago) Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 (83 years ago) Ratko Mladić, Serbian general
1946 (80 years ago) Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
1947 (79 years ago) Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts

417 (1609 years ago) Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church
604 (1422 years ago) Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 540)
1916 (110 years ago) Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (born 1830)
1925 (101 years ago) Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1866)
1942 (84 years ago) William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
1955 (71 years ago) Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (born 1920)
2003 (23 years ago) Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1952)
2015 (11 years ago) Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1948)