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8 Khordad 1421

Thursday 8 Khordad 1421 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 29 May 2042, and 9 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

1790 (236 years ago) Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
1913 (113 years ago) Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a near-riot.
1918 (108 years ago) Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1985 (41 years ago) Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1989 (37 years ago) Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States that allows for the manufacture of F-16 Falcon parts in Egypt.
1999 (27 years ago) Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
2005 (21 years ago) France rejects the Constitution of the European Union in a national referendum.
2008 (18 years ago) A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.

1630 (396 years ago) Charles II of England,
1874 (152 years ago) G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright (died 1936)
1880 (146 years ago) Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (died 1936)
1903 (123 years ago) Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (died 2003)
1914 (112 years ago) Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (died 1986)
1917 (109 years ago) John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (died 1963)
1929 (97 years ago) Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
1958 (68 years ago) Annette Bening, American actress

1453 (573 years ago) Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1404)
1500 (526 years ago) Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer and navigator (born 1451)
1829 (197 years ago) Humphry Davy, English-Swiss chemist and academic (born 1778)
1892 (134 years ago) Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Baháʼí Faith (born 1817)
1958 (68 years ago) Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
1979 (47 years ago) Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (born 1892)
1994 (32 years ago) Erich Honecker, German lawyer and politician, leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (born 1912)
2010 (16 years ago) Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1936)