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6 Khordad 1490

Wednesday 6 Khordad 1490 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 27 May 2111, and 18 Rajab 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

1798 (228 years ago) The Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath outside London. A bloodless duel between the prime minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Younger and his political opponent George Tierney.
1930 (96 years ago) The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1950 (76 years ago) The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
1960 (66 years ago) In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1988 (38 years ago) Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
2001 (25 years ago) Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2016 (10 years ago) Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

1332 (694 years ago) Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian (died 1406)
1894 (132 years ago) Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (died 1961)
1894 (132 years ago) Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (died 1961)
1897 (129 years ago) John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)
1907 (119 years ago) Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964)
1911 (115 years ago) Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (died 1978)
1922 (104 years ago) Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)
1923 (103 years ago) Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)

1564 (462 years ago) John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (born 1509)
1707 (319 years ago) Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (born 1640)
1840 (186 years ago) Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)
1910 (116 years ago) Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
1939 (87 years ago) Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)
1964 (62 years ago) Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)
1987 (39 years ago) John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
1988 (38 years ago) Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)