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8 Ordibehesht 1433

Tuesday 8 Ordibehesht 1433 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 28 April 2054, and 19 Ramadan 1476 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

357 (1669 years ago) Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1253 (773 years ago) Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1796 (230 years ago) The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1937 (89 years ago) South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1947 (79 years ago) Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1952 (74 years ago) The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1994 (32 years ago) Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

1758 (268 years ago) James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (died 1831)
1889 (137 years ago) António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1970)
1906 (120 years ago) Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1978)
1926 (100 years ago) Harper Lee, American novelist (died 2016)
1937 (89 years ago) Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (died 2006)
1948 (78 years ago) Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2015)
1974 (52 years ago) Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and producer
1981 (45 years ago) Jessica Alba, American model and actress

1813 (213 years ago) Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (born 1745)
1853 (173 years ago) Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (born 1773)
1903 (123 years ago) Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist (born 1839)
1945 (81 years ago) Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist, fascist dictator and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1883)
1992 (34 years ago) Francis Bacon, Irish painter (born 1909)
1999 (27 years ago) Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)
2012 (14 years ago) Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (born 1919)
2021 (5 years ago) Michael Collins, American astronaut (born 1930)