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28 Shahrivar 1399
Friday 28 Shahrivar 1399 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 18 September 2020, and 29 Muharram 1442 in the Islamic calendar.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian28 Shahrivar 1399
- Gregorian18 September 2020
- Islamic29 Muharram 1442
- Imperial28 Shahrivar 2579
- Day of the year183 of 366
- Left in the year183 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearRat
Occasions on 28 Shahrivar 1399
- international
- countries
On this day: September 18
Events
- 1860 (166 years ago) Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards Beijing after having recently occupied Tianjin, the allied Anglo-French force engages and defeats a larger Qing Chinese army at Zhangjiawan.
- 1919 (107 years ago) In the Netherlands, a law granting full voting rights to women is granted royal assent by Queen Wilhelmina.
- 1934 (92 years ago) The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
- 1950 (76 years ago) TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in Brazil, begins transmissions on Channel 3 in São Paulo.
- 1962 (64 years ago) Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
- 1989 (37 years ago) An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré is uncovered and foiled.
- 1990 (36 years ago) Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
Births
- 53 (1973 years ago) Trajan, Roman emperor (died 117)
- 1709 (317 years ago) Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (died 1784)
- 1765 (261 years ago) Pope Gregory XVI,
- 1905 (121 years ago) Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (died 1990)
- 1961 (65 years ago) James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (died 2013)
- 1971 (55 years ago) Anna Netrebko, Russian-Austrian soprano and actress
- 1971 (55 years ago) Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
- 1976 (50 years ago) Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
Deaths
- 96 (1930 years ago) Domitian, Roman emperor (born AD 51)
- 1180 (846 years ago) Louis VII, king of France (born 1120)
- 1598 (428 years ago) Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō (born 1536)
- 1783 (243 years ago) Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
- 1967 (59 years ago) John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1942)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (born 1933)