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8 Azar 1459

Thursday 8 Azar 1459 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 28 November 2080, and 16 Safar 1504 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

1443 (583 years ago) Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1582 (444 years ago) In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 (equivalent to £13,818 in 2025) bond in lieu of posting wedding banns, which enables them to marry immediately.
1912 (114 years ago) Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1917 (109 years ago) The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
1920 (106 years ago) FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France.
1958 (68 years ago) First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
1965 (61 years ago) Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1991 (35 years ago) South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

1628 (398 years ago) John Bunyan, English preacher, theologian, and author (died 1688)
1757 (269 years ago) William Blake, English poet and painter (died 1827)
1820 (206 years ago) Friedrich Engels, German-English philosopher, economist, and journalist (died 1895)
1880 (146 years ago) Alexander Blok, Russian poet and playwright (died 1921)
1881 (145 years ago) Stefan Zweig, Austrian author, playwright, and journalist (died 1942)
1907 (119 years ago) Alberto Moravia, Italian journalist and author (died 1990)
1908 (118 years ago) Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist (died 2009)
1950 (76 years ago) Ed Harris, American actor and producer

741 (1285 years ago) Pope Gregory III,
1680 (346 years ago) Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1598)
1694 (332 years ago) Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet and scholar (born 1644)
1859 (167 years ago) Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (born 1783)
1954 (72 years ago) Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
1962 (64 years ago) Wilhelmina of the Netherlands,
1968 (58 years ago) Enid Blyton, English author and poet (born 1897)
2010 (16 years ago) Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor and producer (born 1926)