13 Mehr 1397

Events

• 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.
• 1936 (90 years ago) The Jarrow March sets off for London.
• 1938 (88 years ago) Holocaust: In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Pacific Theater: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
• 1962 (64 years ago) The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.
• 1988 (38 years ago) A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
• 1990 (36 years ago) After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
• 2000 (26 years ago) Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.

Births

• 1641 (385 years ago) Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV (died 1707)
• 1713 (313 years ago) Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (died 1784)
• 1829 (197 years ago) Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (died 1886)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (died 1945)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (died 2011)
• 1952 (74 years ago) Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1975 (51 years ago) Kate Winslet, English actress
• 1976 (50 years ago) Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic

Deaths

• 578 (1448 years ago) Justin II, Byzantine emperor (born 520)
• 1285 (741 years ago) Philip III, king of France (born 1245)
• 1880 (146 years ago) Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (born 1819)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun and saint (born 1905)
• 1976 (50 years ago) Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
• 2011 (15 years ago) Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1955)
• 2015 (11 years ago) Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright (born 1948)

All 400 events, births and deaths of October 5