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8 Khordad 1459

Tuesday 8 Khordad 1459 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 28 May 2080, and 8 Sha'ban 1503 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

1802 (224 years ago) In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.
1926 (100 years ago) The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1991 (35 years ago) The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1999 (27 years ago) In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2004 (22 years ago) The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 (18 years ago) The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2011 (15 years ago) Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.

1759 (267 years ago) William Pitt the Younger, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1806)
1884 (142 years ago) Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd and 4th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1948)
1908 (118 years ago) Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond (died 1964)
1912 (114 years ago) Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)
1925 (101 years ago) Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist, scholar, and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (died 2006)
1968 (58 years ago) Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1971 (55 years ago) Marco Rubio, American lawyer and politician
1985 (41 years ago) Carey Mulligan, English actress

1787 (239 years ago) Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1719)
1849 (177 years ago) Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (born 1820)
1916 (110 years ago) Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (born 1856)
1937 (89 years ago) Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (born 1870)
1972 (54 years ago) Edward VIII of the United Kingdom,
2003 (23 years ago) Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
2010 (16 years ago) Gary Coleman, American actor (born 1968)
2014 (12 years ago) Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (born 1928)