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18 Khordad 1421

Sunday 18 Khordad 1421 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 8 June 2042, and 19 Jumada al-Thani 1464 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

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.

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

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)