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1 Shahrivar 1473

Sunday 1 Shahrivar 1473 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 22 August 2094, and 10 Rabi' al-Thani 1518 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

1791 (235 years ago) The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
1894 (132 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
1942 (84 years ago) Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
1968 (58 years ago) Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1991 (35 years ago) Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
2004 (22 years ago) Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2006 (20 years ago) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.

1760 (266 years ago) Pope Leo XII,
1862 (164 years ago) Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (died 1918)
1874 (152 years ago) Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (died 1928)
1893 (133 years ago) Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (died 1967)
1902 (124 years ago) Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, film director and propagandist (died 2003)
1904 (122 years ago) Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1997)
1920 (106 years ago) Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (died 2012)
1995 (31 years ago) Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter

1241 (785 years ago) Pope Gregory IX, (born 1143)
1280 (746 years ago) Pope Nicholas III,
1485 (541 years ago) Richard III of England,
1922 (104 years ago) Michael Collins, Irish rebel, counter-intelligence and military tactician, and politician; 2nd Irish Minister of Finance (born 1890)
1958 (68 years ago) Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
1978 (48 years ago) Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya (born 1894)
1986 (40 years ago) Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (born 1883)
2023 (3 years ago) Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1943)