11 Shahrivar · Khshathra 1408

Events on this day

  • Krishna Janmashtami · Janmashtami

    Hindu · Cultural

    Krishna's birth at midnight, on the eighth day of the waning moon of Bhadrapada (Shravana in the southern reckoning), in August or September; this is the Vaishnava date, and Smarta households may keep it a day earlier.

  • Remembrance of the 1988 Prison Massacre

    Iranian · Historical

    Thousands of political prisoners were secretly executed between late July and early September 1988. The Mothers of Khavaran named 1 September the day of public commemoration at Khavaran Cemetery, where many lie in unmarked mass graves.

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Facts

  • Day 166 of 1408
  • 200 days left
  • Zodiac sign: Virgo · Sonboleh