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27 Mehr 1482
Friday 27 Mehr 1482 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 19 October 2103, and 17 Ramadan 1527 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.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian27 Mehr 1482
- Gregorian19 October 2103
- Islamic17 Ramadan 1527
- Imperial27 Mehr 2662
- Day of the year213 of 366
- Left in the year153 days
- ZodiacLibra
- YearPig
Occasions on 27 Mehr 1482
No occasion is recorded for this day. Next occasion: Laylat al-Qadr (19th Ramadan Night), Saturday 28 Mehr (tomorrow).
On this day: October 19
Events
- 1512 (514 years ago) Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
- 1864 (162 years ago) American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
- 1900 (126 years ago) Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
- 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1950 (76 years ago) Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.
- 2003 (23 years ago) Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- 2005 (21 years ago) Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
- 2025 (a year ago) Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..
Births
- 1433 (593 years ago) Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (died 1499)
- 1899 (127 years ago) Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
- 1931 (95 years ago) John le Carré, English intelligence officer and author (died 2020)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor (died 2023)
- 1945 (81 years ago) John Lithgow, American actor
- 1946 (80 years ago) Philip Pullman, English author and academic
- 1966 (60 years ago) Jon Favreau, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Deaths
- 1216 (810 years ago) John, King of England (born 1166)
- 1745 (281 years ago) Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist (born 1667)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (born 1881)
- 1937 (89 years ago) Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)
- 1950 (76 years ago) Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (born 1892)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general and politician, 44th President of Mexico (born 1895)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (born 1933)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (born 1925)