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6 Mehr 1422
Monday 6 Mehr 1422 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 28 September 2043, and 24 Shawwal 1465 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
- Persian6 Mehr 1422
- Gregorian28 September 2043
- Islamic24 Shawwal 1465
- Imperial6 Mehr 2602
- Day of the year192 of 365
- Left in the year173 days
- ZodiacLibra
- YearPig
Occasions on 6 Mehr 1422
- international
- international
- international
- countries
- fun
On this day: September 28
Events
- 1066 (960 years ago) William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
- 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1928 (98 years ago) Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
- 1995 (31 years ago) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 2000 (26 years ago) Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 2008 (18 years ago) The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win.
- 2022 (4 years ago) Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.
Births
- 551 BC Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (died 479 BC)
- 1803 (223 years ago) Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (died 1870)
- 1841 (185 years ago) Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (died 1929)
- 1924 (102 years ago) Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (died 1996)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist (died 2025)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1968 (58 years ago) Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
- 1987 (39 years ago) Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
Deaths
- 48 BC Pompey, Roman general and politician (born 106 BC)
- 1891 (135 years ago) Herman Melville, American author and poet (born 1819)
- 1895 (131 years ago) Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (born 1822)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (born 1889)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Pope John Paul I,
- 1989 (37 years ago) Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (born 1917)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923)