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8 Dey 1440

Wednesday 8 Dey 1440 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 28 December 2061, and 15 Sha'ban 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.

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This day in four calendars

893 (1133 years ago) An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
1768 (258 years ago) King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
1835 (191 years ago) Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
1912 (114 years ago) The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
1973 (53 years ago) The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
2006 (20 years ago) War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
2025 (a year ago) Unrest in the form of mass protests erupt across Iran, the largest uprising in the country since the Iranian Revolution.

1856 (170 years ago) Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)
1882 (144 years ago) Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1944)
1903 (123 years ago) John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (died 1957)
1922 (104 years ago) Stan Lee, American publisher, producer, and actor (died 2018)
1934 (92 years ago) Maggie Smith, English actress (died 2024)
1954 (72 years ago) Denzel Washington, American actor, director, and producer
1955 (71 years ago) Liu Xiaobo, Chinese author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
1969 (57 years ago) Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American computer programmer, developed Linux kernel

1622 (404 years ago) Francis de Sales, French bishop and saint (born 1567)
1694 (332 years ago) Mary II of England,
1937 (89 years ago) Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer (born 1875)
1945 (81 years ago) Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (born 1871)
1947 (79 years ago) Victor Emmanuel III of Italy,
2004 (22 years ago) Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (born 1933)
2016 (10 years ago) Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1932)
2025 (a year ago) Brigitte Bardot, French actress, singer and activist (born 1934)