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15 Mordad 1440

Friday 15 Mordad 1440 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 5 August 2061, and 18 Rabi' al-Awwal 1484 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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1939 (87 years ago) The Thirteen Roses: Thirteen female members of the Unified Socialist Youth are executed by Francoist forces in Madrid, Spain.
1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
1949 (77 years ago) In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
1960 (66 years ago) Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
1981 (45 years ago) President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1995 (31 years ago) Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is taken by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
2003 (23 years ago) A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
2021 (5 years ago) Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.

1681 (345 years ago) Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (died 1741)
1802 (224 years ago) Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (died 1829)
1844 (182 years ago) Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
1850 (176 years ago) Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (died 1893)
1906 (120 years ago) John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1987)
1930 (96 years ago) Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut, first man to walk on the Moon (died 2012)
1968 (58 years ago) Marine Le Pen, French lawyer and politician
1974 (52 years ago) Kajol, Indian film actress

882 (1144 years ago) Louis III, Frankish king (born 863)
1895 (131 years ago) Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (born 1820)
1955 (71 years ago) Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (born 1909)
1957 (69 years ago) Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
1984 (42 years ago) Richard Burton, Welsh actor (born 1925)
1998 (28 years ago) Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (born 1911)
2000 (26 years ago) Alec Guinness, English actor (born 1914)
2019 (7 years ago) Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (born 1931).