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30 Mordad 1385
Monday 30 Mordad 1385 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 21 August 2006, and 26 Rajab 1427 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian30 Mordad 1385
- Gregorian21 August 2006
- Islamic26 Rajab 1427
- Imperial30 Mordad 2565
- Day of the year154 of 365
- Left in the year211 days
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- YearDog
Occasions on 30 Mordad 1385
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international
International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
On this day: August 21
Events
- 1862 (164 years ago) The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the public.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
- 1944 (82 years ago) Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
- 1982 (44 years ago) Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1986 (40 years ago) Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometre (12 mi) range.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
- 1994 (32 years ago) Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
Births
- 1165 (861 years ago) Philip II of France,
- 1765 (261 years ago) William IV, King of the United Kingdom (died 1837)
- 1789 (237 years ago) Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (died 1857)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator and creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (died 2018)
- 1963 (63 years ago) Mohammed VI of Morocco, King of Morocco
- 1973 (53 years ago) Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google
- 1986 (40 years ago) Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
- 1988 (38 years ago) Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
Deaths
- 1614 (412 years ago) Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and purported serial killer (born 1560)
- 1838 (188 years ago) Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (born 1781)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (born 1879)
- 1943 (83 years ago) Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
- 1964 (62 years ago) Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1893)
- 1979 (47 years ago) Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (born 1910)
- 1995 (31 years ago) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (born 1975)