General Information for August 30th 2016 |
There are 3 public holidays today. |
Day 243 of 2016 |
123 days left in 2016 |
Week 35 of the year |
On this Day in History |
1981 - President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran. |
1940 - The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary. |
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence"). |
1282 - Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou. |