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20 Shahrivar 1395

Saturday 20 Shahrivar 1395 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 10 September 2016, and 8 Dhu al-Hijjah 1437 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

1573 (453 years ago) German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg.
1622 (404 years ago) Fifty-five Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom.
1724 (302 years ago) Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.
1776 (250 years ago) American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1918 (108 years ago) Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
1974 (52 years ago) Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
2008 (18 years ago) The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

1487 (539 years ago) Pope Julius III,
1659 (367 years ago) Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (died 1695)
1839 (187 years ago) Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (died 1914)
1892 (134 years ago) Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
1897 (129 years ago) Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (died 1962)
1933 (93 years ago) Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer (died 2019)[citation needed]
1960 (66 years ago) Colin Firth, English actor and producer
1964 (62 years ago) Jack Ma, Chinese businessman, co-founder of Alibaba Group [citation needed]

210 BC Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China (born 259 BC)
1797 (229 years ago) Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (born 1759)
1898 (128 years ago) Empress Elisabeth of Austria,
1975 (51 years ago) George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
1979 (47 years ago) Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (born 1922)
1983 (43 years ago) Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
2007 (19 years ago) Jane Wyman, American actress (born 1917)
2025 (a year ago) Charlie Kirk, American right-wing political activist (born 1993)