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8 Bahman 1495

Thursday 8 Bahman 1495 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 28 January 2117, and 24 Jumada al-Awwal 1541 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

1813 (213 years ago) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1846 (180 years ago) The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1878 (148 years ago) Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
1909 (117 years ago) United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1933 (93 years ago) The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1935 (91 years ago) Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1985 (41 years ago) Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
2002 (24 years ago) TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.

1457 (569 years ago) Henry VII, king of England (died 1509)
1853 (173 years ago) José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (died 1895)
1873 (153 years ago) Colette, French novelist and journalist (died 1954)
1912 (114 years ago) Jackson Pollock, American painter (died 1956)
1936 (90 years ago) Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (died 2024)
1955 (71 years ago) Nicolas Sarkozy, French lawyer and politician, 23rd President of France
1978 (48 years ago) Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Elijah Wood, American actor and producer

814 (1212 years ago) Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor (born 742)
1547 (479 years ago) Henry VIII, king of England (born 1491)
1621 (405 years ago) Pope Paul V,
1687 (339 years ago) Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (born 1611)
1939 (87 years ago) W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)
1960 (66 years ago) Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (born 1891)
1996 (30 years ago) Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)
2002 (24 years ago) Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (born 1907)