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18 Khordad 1387
Saturday 18 Khordad 1387 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 7 June 2008, and 3 Jumada al-Thani 1429 in the Islamic calendar.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian18 Khordad 1387
- Gregorian7 June 2008
- Islamic3 Jumada al-Thani 1429
- Imperial18 Khordad 2567
- Day of the year80 of 366
- Left in the year286 days
- ZodiacGemini
- YearRat
Occasions on 18 Khordad 1387
- religious holiday
- international
On this day: June 7
Events
- 1494 (532 years ago) Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
- 1810 (216 years ago) The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
- 1862 (164 years ago) The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
- 1919 (107 years ago) Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
- 1929 (97 years ago) The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
- 1967 (59 years ago) Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
- 1981 (45 years ago) The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
- 2000 (26 years ago) The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
Births
- 1848 (178 years ago) Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)
- 1862 (164 years ago) Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
- 1896 (130 years ago) Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995)
- 1952 (74 years ago) Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1952 (74 years ago) Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
- 1958 (68 years ago) Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana
Deaths
- 555 (1471 years ago) Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500)
- 1329 (697 years ago) Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274)
- 1843 (183 years ago) Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912)
- 1970 (56 years ago) E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922)