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8 Khordad 1395
Saturday 8 Khordad 1395 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 28 May 2016, and 21 Sha'ban 1437 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian8 Khordad 1395
- Gregorian28 May 2016
- Islamic21 Sha'ban 1437
- Imperial8 Khordad 2575
- Day of the year70 of 366
- Left in the year296 days
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- YearMonkey
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On this day: May 28
Events
- 1802 (224 years ago) In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.
- 1926 (100 years ago) The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
- 1991 (35 years ago) The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
- 1999 (27 years ago) In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- 2004 (22 years ago) The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
- 2008 (18 years ago) The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
- 2011 (15 years ago) Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
Births
- 1759 (267 years ago) William Pitt the Younger, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1806)
- 1884 (142 years ago) Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd and 4th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1948)
- 1908 (118 years ago) Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond (died 1964)
- 1912 (114 years ago) Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist, scholar, and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (died 2006)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1971 (55 years ago) Marco Rubio, American lawyer and politician
- 1985 (41 years ago) Carey Mulligan, English actress
Deaths
- 1787 (239 years ago) Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1719)
- 1849 (177 years ago) Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (born 1820)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (born 1856)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (born 1870)
- 1972 (54 years ago) Edward VIII of the United Kingdom,
- 2003 (23 years ago) Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
- 2010 (16 years ago) Gary Coleman, American actor (born 1968)
- 2014 (12 years ago) Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (born 1928)