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9 Aban 1499
Thursday 9 Aban 1499 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 31 October 2120, and 8 Rabi' al-Thani 1545 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
- Persian9 Aban 1499
- Gregorian31 October 2120
- Islamic8 Rabi' al-Thani 1545
- Imperial9 Aban 2679
- Day of the year225 of 365
- Left in the year140 days
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Occasions on 9 Aban 1499
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On this day: October 31
Events
- 1517 (509 years ago) Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
- 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Britain ends, causing Germany to abandon Operation Sea Lion.
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
- 1961 (65 years ago) In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Mausoleum, and is buried near the Kremlin Wall under a plain white marker.
- 1998 (28 years ago) Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
- 2011 (15 years ago) The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.
- 2014 (12 years ago) During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California.
Births
- 1632 (394 years ago) Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (died 1675)
- 1760 (266 years ago) Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker (died 1849)
- 1795 (231 years ago) John Keats, English poet (died 1821)
- 1887 (139 years ago) Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (died 1975)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 2012)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian academic and politician, 66th Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1950 (76 years ago) Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-English architect and academic, designed the Bridge Pavilion (died 2016)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Peter Jackson, New Zealand actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Deaths
- 1918 (108 years ago) Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (born 1890)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Mikhail Frunze, Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (born 1885)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (born 1874)
- 1984 (42 years ago) Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (born 1917)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
- 1993 (33 years ago) Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1920)
- 1993 (33 years ago) River Phoenix, American actor and singer (born 1970)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Sean Connery, Scottish actor (born 1930)