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18 Azar 1387
Monday 18 Azar 1387 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 8 December 2008, and 9 Dhu al-Hijjah 1429 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian18 Azar 1387
- Gregorian8 December 2008
- Islamic9 Dhu al-Hijjah 1429
- Imperial18 Azar 2567
- Day of the year264 of 366
- Left in the year102 days
- ZodiacSagittarius
- YearRat
Occasions on 18 Azar 1387
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On this day: December 8
Events
- 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
- 1980 (46 years ago) John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
- 1987 (39 years ago) Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
- 1991 (35 years ago) The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- 1998 (28 years ago) Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.
- 2025 (a year ago) Singapore, under the government's approval, published its now-declassified Albatross file, comprising information relating to the Proclamation of Singapore dating back six decades ago.
Births
- 65 BC Horace, Roman poet (died 8 BC)
- 1542 (484 years ago) Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise (died 1587)
- 1832 (194 years ago) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
- 1865 (161 years ago) Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (died 1957)
- 1943 (83 years ago) Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter and poet (died 1971)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Kim Basinger, American actress
- 1966 (60 years ago) Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2023)
- 1982 (44 years ago) Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and actress
Deaths
- 1830 (196 years ago) Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (born 1767)
- 1864 (162 years ago) George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)
- 1903 (123 years ago) Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (born 1820)
- 1907 (119 years ago) King Oscar II of Sweden,
- 1978 (48 years ago) Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1898)
- 1980 (46 years ago) John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)
- 1994 (32 years ago) Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1927)
- 2016 (10 years ago) John Glenn, American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (born 1921)