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29 Esfand 1493

Wednesday 29 Esfand 1493 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 20 March 2115, and 23 Jumada al-Thani 1539 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

1815 (211 years ago) After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1888 (138 years ago) The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1916 (110 years ago) Albert Einstein submits his paper, "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity", which establishes his general theory of relativity, to the journal Annalen der Physik.
1921 (105 years ago) The Upper Silesia plebiscite, mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland, is held.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1956 (70 years ago) Tunisia gains independence from France.
2006 (20 years ago) Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
2012 (14 years ago) At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.

43 BC Ovid, Roman poet (died 17)
1811 (215 years ago) Napoleon II, French emperor (died 1832)
1828 (198 years ago) Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (died 1906)
1904 (122 years ago) B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (died 1990)
1928 (98 years ago) Fred Rogers, American television host and author
1948 (78 years ago) John de Lancie, American actor
1976 (50 years ago) Chester Bennington, American singer and songwriter (died 2017)
1984 (42 years ago) Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer

1191 (835 years ago) Pope Clement III,
1413 (613 years ago) Henry IV of England,
1894 (132 years ago) Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (born 1802)
1929 (97 years ago) Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (born 1851)
1990 (36 years ago) Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (born 1929)
1993 (33 years ago) Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
2004 (22 years ago) Juliana of the Netherlands,
2020 (6 years ago) Kenny Rogers, American singer (born 1938)