8 Aban 1381 | Wednesday 30 October 2002

This day in four calendars

1340 (686 years ago) Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
1836 (190 years ago) Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to overthrow the July Monarchy in France
1864 (162 years ago) Second War of Schleswig: The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
1975 (51 years ago) Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic).
1980 (46 years ago) El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1991 (35 years ago) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
2014 (12 years ago) Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.

1632 (394 years ago) Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (died 1723)
1735 (291 years ago) John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (died 1826)
1839 (187 years ago) Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (died 1899)
1871 (155 years ago) Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (died 1945)
1885 (141 years ago) Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (died 1972)
1895 (131 years ago) Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
1960 (66 years ago) Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2020)
1981 (45 years ago) Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman

1611 (415 years ago) Charles IX of Sweden,
1757 (269 years ago) Osman III, Ottoman sultan (born 1699)
1910 (116 years ago) Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1828)
1923 (103 years ago) Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1858)
1975 (51 years ago) Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
1987 (39 years ago) Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (born 1904)
2009 (17 years ago) Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (born 1908)
2010 (16 years ago) Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1927)