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7 Mehr 1461
Monday 7 Mehr 1461 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 28 September 2082, and 5 Muharram 1506 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
- Persian7 Mehr 1461
- Gregorian28 September 2082
- Islamic5 Muharram 1506
- Imperial7 Mehr 2641
- Day of the year193 of 366
- Left in the year173 days
- ZodiacLibra
- YearLeopard
Occasions on 7 Mehr 1461
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On this day: September 28
Events
- 1066 (960 years ago) William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
- 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1928 (98 years ago) Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
- 1995 (31 years ago) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 2000 (26 years ago) Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 2008 (18 years ago) The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win.
- 2022 (4 years ago) Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.
Births
- 551 BC Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (died 479 BC)
- 1803 (223 years ago) Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (died 1870)
- 1841 (185 years ago) Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (died 1929)
- 1924 (102 years ago) Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (died 1996)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist (died 2025)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1968 (58 years ago) Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
- 1987 (39 years ago) Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
Deaths
- 48 BC Pompey, Roman general and politician (born 106 BC)
- 1891 (135 years ago) Herman Melville, American author and poet (born 1819)
- 1895 (131 years ago) Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (born 1822)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (born 1889)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Pope John Paul I,
- 1989 (37 years ago) Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (born 1917)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923)