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9 Mordad 1421

Thursday 9 Mordad 1421 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 31 July 2042, and 13 Sha'ban 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

1917 (109 years ago) World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
1938 (88 years ago) Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 (88 years ago) Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1941 (85 years ago) The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
1964 (62 years ago) Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1991 (35 years ago) The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1992 (34 years ago) The nation of Georgia joins the United Nations.

1880 (146 years ago) Premchand, Indian author and playwright (died 1936)
1912 (114 years ago) Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
1914 (112 years ago) Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (died 1983)
1919 (107 years ago) Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (died 1987)
1929 (97 years ago) Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (died 2006)
1947 (79 years ago) Richard Griffiths, English actor (died 2013)
1965 (61 years ago) J. K. Rowling, English author and film producer
1989 (37 years ago) Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player

1556 (470 years ago) Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish priest and theologian, founded the Society of Jesus (born 1491)
1784 (242 years ago) Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (born 1713)
1875 (151 years ago) Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (born 1808)
1886 (140 years ago) Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1811)
1944 (82 years ago) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (born 1900)
2012 (14 years ago) Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (born 1925)
2017 (9 years ago) Jeanne Moreau, French actress (born 1928)
2024 (2 years ago) Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian politician, political leader of Hamas (born 1962/1963)