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28 Shahrivar 1460

Thursday 28 Shahrivar 1460 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 18 September 2081, and 14 Dhu al-Hijjah 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

1860 (166 years ago) Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards Beijing after having recently occupied Tianjin, the allied Anglo-French force engages and defeats a larger Qing Chinese army at Zhangjiawan.
1919 (107 years ago) In the Netherlands, a law granting full voting rights to women is granted royal assent by Queen Wilhelmina.
1934 (92 years ago) The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1950 (76 years ago) TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in Brazil, begins transmissions on Channel 3 in São Paulo.
1962 (64 years ago) Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1989 (37 years ago) An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré is uncovered and foiled.
1990 (36 years ago) Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

53 (1973 years ago) Trajan, Roman emperor (died 117)
1709 (317 years ago) Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (died 1784)
1765 (261 years ago) Pope Gregory XVI,
1905 (121 years ago) Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (died 1990)
1961 (65 years ago) James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (died 2013)
1971 (55 years ago) Anna Netrebko, Russian-Austrian soprano and actress
1971 (55 years ago) Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
1976 (50 years ago) Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer

96 (1930 years ago) Domitian, Roman emperor (born AD 51)
1180 (846 years ago) Louis VII, king of France (born 1120)
1598 (428 years ago) Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese daimyō (born 1536)
1783 (243 years ago) Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707)
1961 (65 years ago) Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
1967 (59 years ago) John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1970 (56 years ago) Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1942)
2020 (6 years ago) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (born 1933)