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18 Azar 1440

Thursday 18 Azar 1440 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 8 December 2061, and 25 Rajab 1484 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

1941 (85 years ago) World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
1980 (46 years ago) John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
1987 (39 years ago) Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
1991 (35 years ago) The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1998 (28 years ago) Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2013 (13 years ago) Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India.
2013 (13 years ago) Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.
2025 (a year ago) Singapore, under the government's approval, published its now-declassified Albatross file, comprising information relating to the Proclamation of Singapore dating back six decades ago.

65 BC Horace, Roman poet (died 8 BC)
1542 (484 years ago) Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise (died 1587)
1832 (194 years ago) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
1865 (161 years ago) Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (died 1957)
1943 (83 years ago) Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter and poet (died 1971)
1953 (73 years ago) Kim Basinger, American actress
1966 (60 years ago) Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2023)
1982 (44 years ago) Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and actress

1830 (196 years ago) Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (born 1767)
1864 (162 years ago) George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1815)
1903 (123 years ago) Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (born 1820)
1907 (119 years ago) King Oscar II of Sweden,
1978 (48 years ago) Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1898)
1980 (46 years ago) John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)
1994 (32 years ago) Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1927)
2016 (10 years ago) John Glenn, American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (born 1921)