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15 Azar 1447

Wednesday 15 Azar 1447 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 5 December 2068, and 9 Shawwal 1491 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

1865 (161 years ago) Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1934 (92 years ago) Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1971 (55 years ago) Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces are defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
1977 (49 years ago) Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen in retaliation to preventing President Anwar el-Sadat from pursuing negotiations with Israel at the Tripoli confer.
1983 (43 years ago) Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
2005 (21 years ago) The 6.8 Mw Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
2017 (9 years ago) The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

1443 (583 years ago) Pope Julius II,
1782 (244 years ago) Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (died 1862)
1803 (223 years ago) Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat (died 1873)
1867 (159 years ago) Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1935)
1868 (158 years ago) Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (died 1951)
1901 (125 years ago) Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (died 1966)
1901 (125 years ago) Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
1927 (99 years ago) Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand (died 2016)

1791 (235 years ago) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (born 1756)
1870 (156 years ago) Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (born 1802)
1891 (135 years ago) Pedro II of Brazil,
1925 (101 years ago) Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
1926 (100 years ago) Claude Monet, French painter (born 1840)
2012 (14 years ago) Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of Brasília (born 1907)
2013 (13 years ago) Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
2025 (a year ago) Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect and designer (b. 1929)