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9 Ordibehesht 1385

Saturday 9 Ordibehesht 1385 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 29 April 2006, and 1 Rabi' al-Thani 1427 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

801 (1225 years ago) An earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.
1770 (256 years ago) James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
1916 (110 years ago) World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
1991 (35 years ago) A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
1991 (35 years ago) The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
2013 (13 years ago) A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.

1818 (208 years ago) Alexander II of Russia,
1854 (172 years ago) Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist and engineer (died 1912)
1901 (125 years ago) Hirohito, Japanese emperor (died 1989)
1957 (69 years ago) Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor
1958 (68 years ago) Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1968 (58 years ago) Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatian politician and diplomat, 4th President of Croatia
1970 (56 years ago) Uma Thurman, American actress
1970 (56 years ago) Andre Agassi, American tennis player

1380 (646 years ago) Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, philosopher and saint (born 1347)
1933 (93 years ago) Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (born 1863)
1951 (75 years ago) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1889)
1980 (46 years ago) Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (born 1899)
2006 (20 years ago) John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (born 1908)
2008 (18 years ago) Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic (born 1906)
2014 (12 years ago) Bob Hoskins, English actor (born 1942)
2020 (6 years ago) Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (born 1967)