Thursday · 3800 days ago

16 Ordibehesht 1395

Thursday 16 Ordibehesht 1395 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 5 May 2016, and 27 Rajab 1437 in the Islamic calendar.

Public holiday

This day in four calendars

1762 (264 years ago) Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1789 (237 years ago) In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1862 (164 years ago) Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1930 (96 years ago) The 1930 Bago earthquake, the first of two major earthquakes in southern Burma, kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.
1980 (46 years ago) Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1994 (32 years ago) The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994 (32 years ago) American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
2006 (20 years ago) The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.

1747 (279 years ago) Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792)
1813 (213 years ago) Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (died 1855)
1818 (208 years ago) Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (died 1883)
1846 (180 years ago) Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
1864 (162 years ago) Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (died 1922)
1921 (105 years ago) Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
1983 (43 years ago) Henry Cavill, English actor
1988 (38 years ago) Adele, English singer-songwriter

1705 (321 years ago) Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1640)
1821 (205 years ago) Napoleon, French general and emperor (born 1769)
1859 (167 years ago) Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (born 1805)
1921 (105 years ago) Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
1959 (67 years ago) Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)
1977 (49 years ago) Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)
1995 (31 years ago) Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (born 1911)
2010 (16 years ago) Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (born 1951)