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30 Khordad 1490
Saturday 30 Khordad 1490 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 20 June 2111, and 13 Sha'ban 1535 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
- Persian30 Khordad 1490
- Gregorian20 June 2111
- Islamic13 Sha'ban 1535
- Imperial30 Khordad 2670
- Day of the year92 of 366
- Left in the year274 days
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- YearSheep
Occasions on 30 Khordad 1490
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On this day: June 20
Events
- 1180 (846 years ago) First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
- 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
- 1956 (70 years ago) A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
- 1960 (66 years ago) The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
- 1963 (63 years ago) Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow.
- 1990 (36 years ago) The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
- 1991 (35 years ago) The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin.
- 1994 (32 years ago) The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.
Births
- 1819 (207 years ago) Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (died 1880)
- 1909 (117 years ago) Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (died 1959)
- 1928 (98 years ago) Martin Landau, American actor and producer (died 2017)
- 1928 (98 years ago) Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician (died 2025)
- 1949 (77 years ago) Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
- 1952 (74 years ago) John Goodman, American actor
- 1967 (59 years ago) Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
- 1978 (48 years ago) Frank Lampard, English footballer
Deaths
- 840 (1186 years ago) Louis the Pious, Carolingian emperor (born 778)
- 1597 (429 years ago) Willem Barentsz, Dutch cartographer and explorer (born 1550)
- 1837 (189 years ago) William IV of the United Kingdom,
- 1958 (68 years ago) Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
- 1966 (60 years ago) Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1894)
- 1995 (31 years ago) Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (born 1911)
- 2005 (21 years ago) Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor and producer (born 1935)