5 Mehr 1385

Events

• 1066 (960 years ago) William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
• 1540 (486 years ago) The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
• 1810 (216 years ago) The French army under André Masséna fails to break British forces under the Arthur Wellesley in the battle of Bussaco.
• 1821 (205 years ago) The Army of the Three Guarantees triumphantly enters Mexico City, led by Agustín de Iturbide. The following day Mexico is declared independent.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
• 1988 (38 years ago) The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
• 1998 (28 years ago) The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
• 2020 (6 years ago) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan launches an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.

Births

• 1601 (425 years ago) Louis XIII of France,
• 1871 (155 years ago) Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Martin Ryle, English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 1972 (54 years ago) Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman
• 1976 (50 years ago) Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
• 1982 (44 years ago) Lil Wayne, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1984 (42 years ago) Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
• 2002 (24 years ago) Jenna Ortega, American actress

Deaths

• 1590 (436 years ago) Pope Urban VII,
• 1700 (326 years ago) Pope Innocent XII,
• 1891 (135 years ago) Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (born 1812)
• 1917 (109 years ago) Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (born 1834)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (born 1892)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises (born 1926)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Maggie Smith, English actress (born 1934)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese politician, 3rd Secretary-General of Hezbollah (born 1960)

All 411 events, births and deaths of September 27