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29 Shahrivar 1418
Tuesday 29 Shahrivar 1418 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 20 September 2039, and 1 Ramadan 1461 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
- Persian29 Shahrivar 1418
- Gregorian20 September 2039
- Islamic1 Ramadan 1461
- Imperial29 Shahrivar 2598
- Day of the year184 of 365
- Left in the year181 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearSheep
Occasions on 29 Shahrivar 1418
- international
On this day: September 20
Events
- 1519 (507 years ago) Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition which ultimately culminates in the first circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1697 (329 years ago) The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
- 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
- 1946 (80 years ago) The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
- 1977 (49 years ago) Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- 1988 (38 years ago) Margaret Thatcher delivers the Bruges speech, in which she articulates her opposition to further European integration.
- 1990 (36 years ago) South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2018 (8 years ago) At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Births
- 1833 (193 years ago) Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)
- 1853 (173 years ago) Chulalongkorn, Siamese king (died 1910)
- 1878 (148 years ago) Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1968)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- 1940 (86 years ago) Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
- 1948 (78 years ago) George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short story writer
- 1988 (38 years ago) Khabib Nurmagomedov, Russian mixed martial artist
- 1993 (33 years ago) Julian Draxler, German footballer
Deaths
- 1328 (698 years ago) Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (born 1263)
- 1863 (163 years ago) Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (born 1785)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (born 1819)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (born 1847)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (born 1865)
- 1971 (55 years ago) Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
- 1996 (30 years ago) Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (born 1913)