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6 Aban 1387
Monday 6 Aban 1387 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 27 October 2008, and 27 Shawwal 1429 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian6 Aban 1387
- Gregorian27 October 2008
- Islamic27 Shawwal 1429
- Imperial6 Aban 2567
- Day of the year222 of 366
- Left in the year144 days
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Occasions on 6 Aban 1387
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On this day: October 27
Events
- 1275 (751 years ago) Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
- 1924 (102 years ago) The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1964 (62 years ago) Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
- 1991 (35 years ago) Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2017 (9 years ago) Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
- 2019 (7 years ago) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
Births
- 1782 (244 years ago) Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1840)
- 1858 (168 years ago) Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (died 1953)
- 1932 (94 years ago) Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1963)
- 1939 (87 years ago) John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
- 1945 (81 years ago) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil
- 1952 (74 years ago) Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1952 (74 years ago) Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
Deaths
- 939 (1087 years ago) Æthelstan, English king
- 1449 (577 years ago) Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (born 1394)
- 1605 (421 years ago) Akbar, Mughal emperor (born 1542)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (born 1878)
- 2010 (16 years ago) Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (born 1950)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1942)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (born 1971)
- 2023 (3 years ago) Li Keqiang, premier of China (born 1955)