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21 Mehr 1457

Wednesday 21 Mehr 1457 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 12 October 2078, and 5 Dhu al-Hijjah 1501 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

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.

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

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)