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13 Farvardin 1433

Thursday 13 Farvardin 1433 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 2 April 2054, and 23 Sha'ban 1476 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.

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This day in four calendars

1801 (225 years ago) French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
1921 (105 years ago) The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
1930 (96 years ago) After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1976 (50 years ago) Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
1992 (34 years ago) Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2002 (24 years ago) Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
2015 (11 years ago) Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
2025 (a year ago) Liberation Day tariffs: U.S. President Donald Trump announces sweeping worldwide tariffs.

747 (1279 years ago) Charlemagne, Frankish king (died 814)
1647 (379 years ago) Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist and illustrator (died 1717)
1725 (301 years ago) Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author (died 1798)
1805 (221 years ago) Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1875)
1840 (186 years ago) Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist (died 1902)
1914 (112 years ago) Alec Guinness, English actor (died 2000)
1939 (87 years ago) Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)
1977 (49 years ago) Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor and producer

670 (1356 years ago) Hasan ibn Ali the second Shia Imam,
1657 (369 years ago) Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1608)
1791 (235 years ago) Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (born 1749)
1872 (154 years ago) Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (born 1791)
1914 (112 years ago) Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1830)
1974 (52 years ago) Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (born 1911)
1995 (31 years ago) Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
2005 (21 years ago) Pope John Paul II,