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16 Ordibehesht 1410

Tuesday 16 Ordibehesht 1410 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 6 May 2031, and 14 Muharram 1453 in the Islamic calendar.

This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.

This day in four calendars

1757 (269 years ago) Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1782 (244 years ago) Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1916 (110 years ago) Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
1941 (85 years ago) At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1984 (42 years ago) One hundred and three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
2001 (25 years ago) During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
2023 (3 years ago) The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.

1574 (452 years ago) Innocent X, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1655)
1758 (268 years ago) Maximilien Robespierre, French politician (died 1794)
1856 (170 years ago) Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst (died 1939)
1904 (122 years ago) Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)
1915 (111 years ago) Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1985)
1953 (73 years ago) Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1961 (65 years ago) George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 (43 years ago) Dani Alves, Brazilian footballer

1859 (167 years ago) Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (born 1769)
1862 (164 years ago) Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (born 1817)
1910 (116 years ago) Edward VII of the United Kingdom,
1919 (107 years ago) L. Frank Baum, American novelist (born 1856)
1949 (77 years ago) Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
1952 (74 years ago) Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (born 1870)
1992 (34 years ago) Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer (born 1901)
2013 (13 years ago) Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (born 1919)