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18 Ordibehesht 1494

Wednesday 18 Ordibehesht 1494 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 8 May 2115, and 13 Sha'ban 1539 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

589 (1437 years ago) Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
1933 (93 years ago) Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
1970 (56 years ago) The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.
1978 (48 years ago) The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1980 (46 years ago) The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
1984 (42 years ago) The Soviet Union announces a boycott upon the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles, later joined by 14 other countries.
2021 (5 years ago) A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.

1737 (289 years ago) Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (died 1794)
1828 (198 years ago) Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
1884 (142 years ago) Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (died 1972)
1899 (127 years ago) Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
1903 (123 years ago) Fernandel, French actor and singer (died 1971)
1926 (100 years ago) David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
1937 (89 years ago) Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
1975 (51 years ago) Enrique Iglesias, Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

535 (1491 years ago) Pope John II,
685 (1341 years ago) Pope Benedict II,
1794 (232 years ago) Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (born 1743)
1880 (146 years ago) Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (born 1821)
1903 (123 years ago) Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (born 1848)
1936 (90 years ago) Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (born 1880)
1988 (38 years ago) Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (born 1907)
1995 (31 years ago) Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (born 1953)