Shahrivar

Shahrivar (, ) is the sixth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. Shahrivar has thirty-one days. It begins in August and ends in September by the Gregorian calendar. The Afghan Persian name is Sonbola; in Pashto it is WaÃÂµay.

Shahrivar is the third and final month of summer. It is followed by Mehr.

The name of the month comes from the Zoroastrian deity Kshatra Vairya.

Events

26 - 1299 - The American Professional Football Association, later the National Football League, officially begins operations with 14 teams. The league began with Ralph Hay assuming the league's leadership before handing over to Native American athlete Jim Thorpe who became the league's first Commissioner (then President).
9 - 1302 - Great KantÃÂ earthquake in Japan
9 - 1318 - Invasion of Poland, beginning of Second World War in Central and Western Europe
25 -1318 - Soviet invasion of Poland begins
1 - 1324 - King Michael's Coup
18 - 1324 - 1944 Bulgarian coup d'ÃÂ©tat
11 - 1324 - Surrender of Japan
9 - 1336 - Independence of the Federation of Malaya proclaimed.
25 - 1342 - Proclamation of Malaysia
26 - 1383 - 1984 South Asian Games opens
1 - 1368 - Baltic Way demonstrations in the Soviet Union.
20 - 1380 - September 11 attacks
11 - 1383 - Beslan school siege in North Ossetian Autonomous Republic, Russia
23 - 1387 - Delhi bombings, India
5 (- 10) - 1391 - 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, in Tehran, Iran.
30 - 1392 - Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya
22 - 1397 - Merrimack Valley gas explosions, Massachusetts, United States