16 Mehr 1382 | Wednesday 8 October 2003

This day in four calendars

1645 (381 years ago) Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
1862 (164 years ago) American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
1918 (108 years ago) World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
1967 (59 years ago) Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. Guevara would be executed the next day.
1986 (40 years ago) An explosion occurred at the Cipel-Marco fur factory in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, killing 14 and injuring 10.
2019 (7 years ago) About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.
2020 (6 years ago) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan twice deliberately targeted the Church of the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots of Shusha.

1892 (134 years ago) Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author (died 1941)
1895 (131 years ago) Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina (died 1974)
1920 (106 years ago) Frank Herbert, American journalist, photographer, and author (died 1986)
1949 (77 years ago) Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer
1958 (68 years ago) Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany, President of the European Commission
1970 (56 years ago) Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1970 (56 years ago) Sadiq Khan, English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Transport, Mayor of London
1985 (41 years ago) Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

705 (1321 years ago) Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Umayyad caliph (born 646)
1754 (272 years ago) Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (born 1707)
1869 (157 years ago) Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (born 1804)
1936 (90 years ago) Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (born 1880)
1967 (59 years ago) Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1883)
1973 (53 years ago) Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic (born 1889)
1992 (34 years ago) Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
2008 (18 years ago) George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)