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16 Mordad 1456
Friday 16 Mordad 1456 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 6 August 2077, and 16 Ramadan 1500 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.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian16 Mordad 1456
- Gregorian6 August 2077
- Islamic16 Ramadan 1500
- Imperial16 Mordad 2636
- Day of the year140 of 365
- Left in the year225 days
- ZodiacLeo
- YearHen
Occasions on 16 Mordad 1456
- religious
- international
- countries
- countries
- fun
On this day: August 6
Events
- 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
- 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
- 1940 (86 years ago) Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
- 1960 (66 years ago) Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
- 1990 (36 years ago) Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
- 2008 (18 years ago) A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Births
- 1809 (217 years ago) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)
- 1868 (158 years ago) Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (died 1955)
- 1881 (145 years ago) Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
- 1911 (115 years ago) Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Robert Mitchum, American actor (died 1997)
- 1928 (98 years ago) Andy Warhol, American painter, photographer and film director (died 1987)
- 1962 (64 years ago) Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
- 1983 (43 years ago) Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
Deaths
- 258 (1768 years ago) Pope Sixtus II,
- 1458 (568 years ago) Pope Callixtus III,
- 1637 (389 years ago) Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (born 1572)
- 1660 (366 years ago) Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (born 1599)
- 1969 (57 years ago) Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1903)
- 1973 (53 years ago) Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Pope Paul VI,
- 2002 (24 years ago) Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (born 1930)