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16 Tir 1365

Monday 16 Tir 1365 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 7 July 1986, and 29 Shawwal 1406 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

1930 (96 years ago) The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1953 (73 years ago) Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1980 (46 years ago) Institution of sharia law in Iran.
1981 (45 years ago) US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1983 (43 years ago) Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1991 (35 years ago) Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2012 (14 years ago) At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

1843 (183 years ago) Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)
1860 (166 years ago) Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1911)
1882 (144 years ago) Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (died 1941)
1899 (127 years ago) George Cukor, American director and producer (died 1983)
1901 (125 years ago) Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (died 1974)
1907 (119 years ago) Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (died 1988)
1940 (86 years ago) Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
1949 (77 years ago) Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer (died 2024)

1304 (722 years ago) Benedict XI, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1240)
1307 (719 years ago) Edward I, king of England (born 1239)
1901 (125 years ago) Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (born 1827)
1930 (96 years ago) Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)
2006 (20 years ago) Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)
2014 (12 years ago) Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (born 1928)
2014 (12 years ago) Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (born 1926)
2021 (5 years ago) Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (born 1968)