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28 Esfand 1439

Friday 28 Esfand 1439 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 18 March 2061, and 25 Shawwal 1483 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

1608 (418 years ago) Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1861 (165 years ago) Spain would annex annex the Dominican Republic, which would last for four years.
1937 (89 years ago) Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1953 (73 years ago) An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people.
1969 (57 years ago) The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1970 (56 years ago) Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1971 (55 years ago) Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
1994 (32 years ago) Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1837 (189 years ago) Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (died 1908)
1842 (184 years ago) Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (died 1898)
1844 (182 years ago) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (died 1908)
1858 (168 years ago) Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (died 1913)
1869 (157 years ago) Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1940)
1932 (94 years ago) John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (died 2009)
1936 (90 years ago) F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
1959 (67 years ago) Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp

1227 (799 years ago) Pope Honorius III,
1745 (281 years ago) Robert Walpole, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1676)
1768 (258 years ago) Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (born 1713)
1913 (113 years ago) George I of Greece,
1980 (46 years ago) Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (born 1900)
1983 (43 years ago) Umberto II of Italy,
1996 (30 years ago) Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
2017 (9 years ago) Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (born 1926)