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19 Khordad 1419
Friday 19 Khordad 1419 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 8 June 2040, and 27 Jumada al-Awwal 1462 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.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian19 Khordad 1419
- Gregorian8 June 2040
- Islamic27 Jumada al-Awwal 1462
- Imperial19 Khordad 2599
- Day of the year81 of 365
- Left in the year284 days
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Occasions on 19 Khordad 1419
- international
- international
- fun
On this day: June 8
Events
- 1783 (243 years ago) Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
- 1928 (98 years ago) Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern Peace").
- 1949 (77 years ago) George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in the United States
- 1987 (39 years ago) New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
- 1992 (34 years ago) The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1995 (31 years ago) Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
- 2001 (25 years ago) Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
- 2023 (3 years ago) Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.
Births
- 1810 (216 years ago) Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (died 1856)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)
- 1903 (123 years ago) Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (died 1987)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
- 1921 (105 years ago) Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (died 2014)
- 1955 (71 years ago) Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
- 1977 (49 years ago) Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
Deaths
- 632 (1394 years ago) Muhammad, the central figure of Islam. (born 570/571)
- 1376 (650 years ago) Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (born 1330)
- 1809 (217 years ago) Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (born 1737)
- 1845 (181 years ago) Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (born 1767)
- 1876 (150 years ago) George Sand, French author and playwright (born 1804)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (born 1908)
- 2009 (17 years ago) Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (born 1935)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (born 1956)