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10 Mehr 1382
Thursday 10 Mehr 1382 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 2 October 2003, and 5 Sha'ban 1424 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian10 Mehr 1382
- Gregorian2 October 2003
- Islamic5 Sha'ban 1424
- Imperial10 Mehr 2562
- Day of the year196 of 365
- Left in the year169 days
- ZodiacLibra
- YearSheep
Occasions on 10 Mehr 1382
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On this day: October 2
Events
- 829 (1197 years ago) Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
- 1470 (556 years ago) The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
- 1864 (162 years ago) American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
- 1919 (107 years ago) Seven days after suffering a "physical collapse" following a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson has a catastrophic stroke at the White House, leaving him physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
- 1958 (68 years ago) Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 2004 (22 years ago) The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
- 2025 (a year ago) 2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur.
Births
- 1452 (574 years ago) Richard III of England,
- 1847 (179 years ago) Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (died 1934)
- 1851 (175 years ago) Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (died 1929)
- 1852 (174 years ago) William Ramsay, Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
- 1869 (157 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (died 1948)
- 1890 (136 years ago) Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (died 1977)
- 1904 (122 years ago) Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (died 1991)
- 1951 (75 years ago) Sting, English singer-songwriter and actor
Deaths
- 1264 (762 years ago) Pope Urban IV,
- 1709 (317 years ago) Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (born 1639)
- 1853 (173 years ago) François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician (born 1786)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (born 1887)
- 1973 (53 years ago) Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (born 1897)
- 1985 (41 years ago) Rock Hudson, American actor (born 1925)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (born 1958)