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31 Shahrivar 1421
Monday 31 Shahrivar 1421 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 22 September 2042, and 7 Shawwal 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
- Persian31 Shahrivar 1421
- Gregorian22 September 2042
- Islamic7 Shawwal 1464
- Imperial31 Shahrivar 2601
- Day of the year186 of 365
- Left in the year179 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearDog
Occasions on 31 Shahrivar 1421
- national
- international
- countries
On this day: September 22
Events
- 1711 (315 years ago) The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
- 1726 (300 years ago) Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.
- 1891 (135 years ago) The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
- 1896 (130 years ago) Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
- 1953 (73 years ago) The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
- 1957 (69 years ago) In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
- 1960 (66 years ago) The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
Births
- 1515 (511 years ago) Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (died 1557)
- 1741 (285 years ago) Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)
- 1791 (235 years ago) Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (died 1867)
- 1882 (144 years ago) Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Ségolène Royal, French politician
- 1958 (68 years ago) Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1959 (67 years ago) Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1984 (42 years ago) Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
Deaths
- 530 (1496 years ago) Pope Felix IV,
- 1520 (506 years ago) Selim I, Ottoman sultan (born 1465)
- 1539 (487 years ago) Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469)
- 1774 (252 years ago) Pope Clement XIV,
- 1872 (154 years ago) Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801)
- 1956 (70 years ago) Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 1989 (37 years ago) Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)
- 1999 (27 years ago) George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (born 1927)