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8 Shahrivar 1383

Sunday 8 Shahrivar 1383 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 29 August 2004, and 12 Rajab 1425 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

708 (1318 years ago) Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1911 (115 years ago) Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
1949 (77 years ago) Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1965 (61 years ago) The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
1997 (29 years ago) At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
2003 (23 years ago) Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2012 (14 years ago) The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.

1632 (394 years ago) John Locke, English physician and philosopher (died 1704)
1780 (246 years ago) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator (died 1867)
1862 (164 years ago) Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
1915 (111 years ago) Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (died 1982)
1920 (106 years ago) Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (died 1955)
1923 (103 years ago) Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
1936 (90 years ago) John McCain, American captain and politician (died 2018)
1958 (68 years ago) Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (died 2009)

1533 (493 years ago) Atahualpa, Inca emperor (born 1497)
1799 (227 years ago) Pius VI, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1717)
1904 (122 years ago) Murad V, Ottoman sultan (born 1840)
1975 (51 years ago) Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (born 1882)
1982 (44 years ago) Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (born 1915)
1987 (39 years ago) Lee Marvin, American actor (born 1924)
2016 (10 years ago) Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (born 1933)
2021 (5 years ago) Ed Asner, American actor (born 1929)