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14 Shahrivar 1389
Sunday 14 Shahrivar 1389 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 5 September 2010, and 25 Ramadan 1431 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian14 Shahrivar 1389
- Gregorian5 September 2010
- Islamic25 Ramadan 1431
- Imperial14 Shahrivar 2569
- Day of the year169 of 365
- Left in the year196 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearLeopard
Occasions on 14 Shahrivar 1389
- international
- international
On this day: September 5
Events
- 1932 (94 years ago) The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 1938 (88 years ago) Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
- 1944 (82 years ago) Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 1945 (81 years ago) Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast under the name Orphan Annie during World War II, is arrested in Yokohama by U.S. military authorities amid widespread speculation of her being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose.
- 1945 (81 years ago) Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
- 1969 (57 years ago) Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- 1972 (54 years ago) Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
Births
- 1568 (458 years ago) Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet, philosopher, and theologian (died 1639)
- 1638 (388 years ago) Louis XIV, king of France (died 1715)
- 1774 (252 years ago) Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and etcher (died 1840)
- 1888 (138 years ago) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (died 1975)
- 1912 (114 years ago) John Cage, American composer and theorist (died 1992)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Werner Herzog, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1946 (80 years ago) Freddie Mercury, British singer and songwriter (died 1991)
- 1951 (75 years ago) Michael Keaton, American actor and producer
Deaths
- 1548 (478 years ago) Catherine Parr, Queen Consort of England and sixth wife of Henry VIII (born c. 1512)
- 1803 (223 years ago) Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (born 1741)
- 1857 (169 years ago) Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (born 1798)
- 1877 (149 years ago) Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (born 1849)
- 1902 (124 years ago) Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (born 1821)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (born 1844)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1920)