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8 Mehr 1422

Wednesday 8 Mehr 1422 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 30 September 2043, and 26 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

1863 (163 years ago) Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris.
1882 (144 years ago) Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1919 (107 years ago) The Elaine massacre in Arkansas commences.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1947 (79 years ago) Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1966 (60 years ago) Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
1975 (51 years ago) Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.

1207 (819 years ago) Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (died 1273)
1870 (156 years ago) Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942)
1924 (102 years ago) Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1984)
1928 (98 years ago) Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
1964 (62 years ago) Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and fashion model
1975 (51 years ago) Marion Cotillard, French actress and singer
1986 (40 years ago) Olivier Giroud, French footballer
1997 (29 years ago) Max Verstappen, Dutch race car driver

420 (1606 years ago) Jerome, Roman priest, theologian, and saint
1897 (129 years ago) Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (born 1873)
1955 (71 years ago) James Dean, American actor (born 1931)
1985 (41 years ago) Simone Signoret, French actress (born 1921)
1985 (41 years ago) Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (born 1900)
1990 (36 years ago) Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
2011 (15 years ago) Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
2014 (12 years ago) Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)