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21 Mehr 1440
Wednesday 21 Mehr 1440 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 12 October 2061, and 28 Jumada al-Awwal 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
- Persian21 Mehr 1440
- Gregorian12 October 2061
- Islamic28 Jumada al-Awwal 1484
- Imperial21 Mehr 2620
- Day of the year207 of 365
- Left in the year158 days
- ZodiacLibra
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Occasions on 21 Mehr 1440
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On this day: October 12
Events
- 539 BC The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia conquer Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)
- 1398 (628 years ago) In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
- 1967 (59 years ago) A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
- 1968 (58 years ago) Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
- 1996 (30 years ago) New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
- 1999 (27 years ago) The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2012 (14 years ago) The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
Births
- 1537 (489 years ago) Edward VI, king of England (died 1553)
- 1798 (228 years ago) Pedro I, emperor of Brazil (died 1834)
- 1866 (160 years ago) Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1937)
- 1875 (151 years ago) Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (died 1947)
- 1891 (135 years ago) Edith Stein, Polish nun and martyr; later canonized (died 1942)
- 1896 (130 years ago) Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and actor (died 2007)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer, and producer
Deaths
- 322 BC Demosthenes, Athenian statesman, (born 384 BC)
- 638 (1388 years ago) Honorius I, pope of the Catholic Church
- 642 (1384 years ago) John IV, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1492 (534 years ago) Piero della Francesca, Italian mathematician and painter (born 1415)
- 1870 (156 years ago) Robert E. Lee, American general (born 1807)
- 1924 (102 years ago) Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1844)
- 1999 (27 years ago) Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (born 1936)
- 2011 (15 years ago) Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (born 1941)