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21 Mordad 1381

Monday 21 Mordad 1381 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 12 August 2002, and 3 Jumada al-Thani 1423 in the Islamic calendar.

Public holiday

This day in four calendars

1121 (905 years ago) Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1323 (703 years ago) The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic is signed, regulating the border between the two countries for the first time.
1806 (220 years ago) Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
1883 (143 years ago) The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1914 (112 years ago) World War I: France, the United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1964 (62 years ago) South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
1977 (49 years ago) The Sri Lanka Riots, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.

1762 (264 years ago) George IV of the United Kingdom,
1831 (195 years ago) Helena Blavatsky, Russian theosophist and scholar (died 1891)
1866 (160 years ago) Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
1887 (139 years ago) Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
1930 (96 years ago) George Soros, Hungarian-American businessman and investor, founded the Soros Fund Management
1954 (72 years ago) François Hollande, French lawyer and politician, 24th President of France
1971 (55 years ago) Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1990 (36 years ago) Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer

30 BC Cleopatra, Egyptian queen (born 69 BC)
1689 (337 years ago) Pope Innocent XI,
1827 (199 years ago) William Blake, English poet and painter (born 1757)
1955 (71 years ago) Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)
1964 (62 years ago) Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (born 1908)
1982 (44 years ago) Henry Fonda, American actor (born 1905)
1989 (37 years ago) William Shockley, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
2014 (12 years ago) Lauren Bacall, American model, actress, and singer (born 1924)