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15 Mordad 1421

Wednesday 15 Mordad 1421 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 6 August 2042, and 19 Sha'ban 1464 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

1914 (112 years ago) World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1940 (86 years ago) Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1960 (66 years ago) Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1990 (36 years ago) Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 (35 years ago) Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
2008 (18 years ago) A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

1809 (217 years ago) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)
1868 (158 years ago) Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (died 1955)
1881 (145 years ago) Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
1911 (115 years ago) Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989)
1917 (109 years ago) Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997)
1928 (98 years ago) Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987)
1962 (64 years ago) Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
1983 (43 years ago) Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer

258 (1768 years ago) Pope Sixtus II,
1458 (568 years ago) Pope Callixtus III,
1637 (389 years ago) Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (born 1572)
1660 (366 years ago) Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (born 1599)
1969 (57 years ago) Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)
1973 (53 years ago) Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
1978 (48 years ago) Pope Paul VI,
2002 (24 years ago) Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (born 1930)