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14 Mehr 1416

Monday 14 Mehr 1416 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 5 October 2037, and 25 Sha'ban 1459 in the Islamic calendar.

This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.

This day in four calendars

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.

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

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)