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8 Aban 1442
Tuesday 8 Aban 1442 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 30 October 2063, and 8 Rajab 1486 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
- Persian8 Aban 1442
- Gregorian30 October 2063
- Islamic8 Rajab 1486
- Imperial8 Aban 2622
- Day of the year224 of 365
- Left in the year141 days
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Occasions on 8 Aban 1442
On this day: October 30
Events
- 1340 (686 years ago) Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
- 1836 (190 years ago) Louis Napoleon launches the unsuccessful Strasbourg Coup to overthrow the July Monarchy in France
- 1864 (162 years ago) Second War of Schleswig: The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
- 1975 (51 years ago) Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic).
- 1980 (46 years ago) El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- 1991 (35 years ago) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
- 2014 (12 years ago) Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
Births
- 1632 (394 years ago) Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (died 1723)
- 1735 (291 years ago) John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (died 1826)
- 1839 (187 years ago) Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (died 1899)
- 1871 (155 years ago) Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (died 1945)
- 1885 (141 years ago) Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (died 1972)
- 1895 (131 years ago) Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
- 1960 (66 years ago) Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2020)
- 1981 (45 years ago) Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
Deaths
- 1611 (415 years ago) Charles IX of Sweden,
- 1757 (269 years ago) Osman III, Ottoman sultan (born 1699)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1828)
- 1923 (103 years ago) Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1858)
- 1975 (51 years ago) Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
- 1987 (39 years ago) Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (born 1904)
- 2009 (17 years ago) Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (born 1908)
- 2010 (16 years ago) Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (born 1927)