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22 Mehr 1458
Saturday 22 Mehr 1458 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 14 October 2079, and 18 Dhu al-Hijjah 1502 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.
Public holiday
This day in four calendars
- Persian22 Mehr 1458
- Gregorian14 October 2079
- Islamic18 Dhu al-Hijjah 1502
- Imperial22 Mehr 2638
- Day of the year208 of 365
- Left in the year157 days
- ZodiacLibra
- YearPig
Occasions on 22 Mehr 1458
- religious holiday
- religious
- cultural
- international
On this day: October 14
Events
- 1809 (217 years ago) The Treaty of Schönbrunn is signed, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition, the final successful war in Napoleon Bonaparte's military career.
- 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
- 1888 (138 years ago) Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
- 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
- 1964 (62 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
- 1966 (60 years ago) The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
- 1982 (44 years ago) U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.
Births
- 1633 (393 years ago) James II of England,
- 1890 (136 years ago) Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)
- 1893 (133 years ago) Lillian Gish, American actress (died 1993)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (died 1975)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Roger Moore, English actor and producer (died 2017)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (died 1997)
- 1943 (83 years ago) Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran
- 1993 (33 years ago) Charlie Kirk, American media personality and political activist (died 2025)
Deaths
- 1944 (82 years ago) Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (born 1891)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (born 1909)
- 1977 (49 years ago) Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1903)
- 1984 (42 years ago) Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
- 1990 (36 years ago) Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)
- 1999 (27 years ago) Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (born 1922)
- 2010 (16 years ago) Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (born 1924)
- 2022 (4 years ago) Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (born 1950)