15 Ordibehesht 1396

Events

• 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.

Births

• 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

Deaths

• 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)

All 292 events, births and deaths of May 5