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10 Esfand 1494

Saturday 10 Esfand 1494 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 29 February 2116, and 15 Jumada al-Thani 1540 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

1504 (522 years ago) Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.
1940 (86 years ago) In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.
1960 (66 years ago) The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
1968 (58 years ago) Aeroflot Flight 15 crashes Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union, due to a loss of control. Eighty-three of the 84 occupants onboard die. The exact cause of the accident is unknown.
2004 (22 years ago) Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.
2012 (14 years ago) North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
2020 (6 years ago) The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
2020 (6 years ago) Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to render public transport free nationwide.

1468 (558 years ago) Pope Paul III,
1792 (234 years ago) Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (died 1868)
1860 (166 years ago) Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman, co-founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (died 1929)
1896 (130 years ago) Morarji Desai, Indian civil servant and politician, fourth Prime Minister of India (died 1995)
1940 (86 years ago) Bartholomew I, current Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1972 (54 years ago) Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain
1988 (38 years ago) Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer
2000 (26 years ago) Ferran Torres, Spanish footballer

468 (1558 years ago) Pope Hilarius,
1868 (158 years ago) Ludwig I of Bavaria,
1944 (82 years ago) Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd President of Finland (born 1861)
1956 (70 years ago) Elpidio Quirino, Filipino lawyer and politician, 6th President of the Philippines (born 1890)
1980 (46 years ago) Yigal Allon, Israeli general and politician, Prime Minister of Israel (born 1918)
2012 (14 years ago) Davy Jones, English singer, guitarist and actor (born 1945)
2024 (2 years ago) Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1939)
2024 (2 years ago) Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania and 3rd President of Zanzibar (born 1925)