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1 Mehr 1459

Sunday 1 Mehr 1459 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 22 September 2080, and 8 Dhu al-Hijjah 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

1711 (315 years ago) The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
1726 (300 years ago) Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.
1891 (135 years ago) The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
1896 (130 years ago) Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
1953 (73 years ago) The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
1957 (69 years ago) In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
1960 (66 years ago) The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

1515 (511 years ago) Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (died 1557)
1741 (285 years ago) Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)
1791 (235 years ago) Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (died 1867)
1882 (144 years ago) Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
1953 (73 years ago) Ségolène Royal, French politician
1958 (68 years ago) Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1959 (67 years ago) Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
1984 (42 years ago) Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer

530 (1496 years ago) Pope Felix IV,
1520 (506 years ago) Selim I, Ottoman sultan (born 1465)
1539 (487 years ago) Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469)
1774 (252 years ago) Pope Clement XIV,
1872 (154 years ago) Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801)
1956 (70 years ago) Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
1989 (37 years ago) Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)
1999 (27 years ago) George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (born 1927)