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4 Mordad 1457
Monday 4 Mordad 1457 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 25 July 2078, and 15 Ramadan 1501 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
- Persian4 Mordad 1457
- Gregorian25 July 2078
- Islamic15 Ramadan 1501
- Imperial4 Mordad 2637
- Day of the year128 of 366
- Left in the year238 days
- ZodiacLeo
- YearDog
Occasions on 4 Mordad 1457
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international
International Afro-Latina, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women's Day
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On this day: July 25
Events
- 1567 (459 years ago) Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1788 (238 years ago) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1799 (227 years ago) Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir.
- 1824 (202 years ago) Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1973 (53 years ago) Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- 1993 (33 years ago) Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
- 1994 (32 years ago) Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
Births
- 1109 (917 years ago) Afonso I, king of Portugal (died 1185)
- 1165 (861 years ago) Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (died 1240)
- 1848 (178 years ago) Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian Serb revolutionary and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (died 1918)
- 1905 (121 years ago) Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
- 1920 (106 years ago) Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic. Contributor to basic research of DNA. (died 1958)
- 1956 (70 years ago) Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018)
- 1967 (59 years ago) Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
Deaths
- 306 (1720 years ago) Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (born 250)
- 1471 (555 years ago) Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic
- 1492 (534 years ago) Innocent VIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1432)
- 1564 (462 years ago) Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1503)
- 1834 (192 years ago) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1772)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (born 1888)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1938)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Beji Caid Essebsi, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1926)