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15 Esfand 1457

Sunday 15 Esfand 1457 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 5 March 2079, and 1 Jumada al-Awwal 1502 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

1824 (202 years ago) First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1933 (93 years ago) Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
1953 (73 years ago) Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
1965 (61 years ago) March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against the British colonial presence.
1974 (52 years ago) Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1978 (48 years ago) The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
2012 (14 years ago) Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.

1133 (893 years ago) Henry II of England,
1512 (514 years ago) Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (died 1594)
1871 (155 years ago) Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (died 1919)
1898 (128 years ago) Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1976)
1922 (104 years ago) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1975)
1934 (92 years ago) Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
1970 (56 years ago) Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian president
1974 (52 years ago) Eva Mendes, American model and actress

254 (1772 years ago) Pope Lucius I,
1827 (199 years ago) Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)
1827 (199 years ago) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (born 1745)
1893 (133 years ago) Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (born 1828)
1953 (73 years ago) Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878)
1953 (73 years ago) Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1891)
1966 (60 years ago) Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (born 1889)
2013 (13 years ago) Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1954)