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5 Shahrivar 1397

Monday 5 Shahrivar 1397 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 27 August 2018, and 15 Dhu al-Hijjah 1439 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

1810 (216 years ago) Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
1813 (213 years ago) French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1962 (64 years ago) The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1971 (55 years ago) An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1991 (35 years ago) The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 (35 years ago) Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
2003 (23 years ago) Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.

1770 (256 years ago) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and academic (died 1831)
1856 (170 years ago) Ivan Franko, Ukrainian author and poet (died 1916)
1865 (161 years ago) Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)
1871 (155 years ago) Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (died 1945)
1874 (152 years ago) Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1908 (118 years ago) Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
1941 (85 years ago) Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (died 2011)
1986 (40 years ago) Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria

1576 (450 years ago) Titian, Italian painter and educator (born 1488)
1590 (436 years ago) Pope Sixtus V,
1635 (391 years ago) Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (born 1562)
1664 (362 years ago) Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter and educator (born 1598)
1950 (76 years ago) Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (born 1908)
1958 (68 years ago) Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
1965 (61 years ago) Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (born 1887)
1975 (51 years ago) Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (born 1892)