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15 Ordibehesht 1440
Wednesday 15 Ordibehesht 1440 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 4 May 2061, and 13 Dhu al-Hijjah 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.
This day in four calendars
- Persian15 Ordibehesht 1440
- Gregorian4 May 2061
- Islamic13 Dhu al-Hijjah 1483
- Imperial15 Ordibehesht 2620
- Day of the year46 of 365
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Occasions on 15 Ordibehesht 1440
- cultural
- international
- countries
- fun
On this day: May 4
Events
- 1814 (212 years ago) Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 1926 (100 years ago) The United Kingdom general strike begins.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
- 1978 (48 years ago) The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
- 1982 (44 years ago) Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
- 1989 (37 years ago) Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe.
- 1990 (36 years ago) Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2014 (12 years ago) Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
Births
- 1825 (201 years ago) Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, anatomist, and academic (died 1895)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress, known as Kawkab al-Sharq, Star of the East (died 1975)
- 1928 (98 years ago) Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian air marshal and politician, 4th President of Egypt (died 2020)
- 1929 (97 years ago) Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-British actress and humanitarian (died 1993)
- 1939 (87 years ago) Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author (died 2018)
- 1960 (66 years ago) Werner Faymann, Austrian politician, 28th Chancellor of Austria
- 1985 (41 years ago) Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 (39 years ago) Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer and manager
Deaths
- 1799 (227 years ago) Tipu, ruler of Mysore (born 1750)
- 1824 (202 years ago) Joseph Joubert, French author (born 1754)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (born 1860)
- 1945 (81 years ago) Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (born 1880)
- 1972 (54 years ago) Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (born 1892)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)