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4 Esfand 1458
Friday 4 Esfand 1458 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 23 February 2080, and 2 Jumada al-Awwal 1503 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.
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This day in four calendars
- Persian4 Esfand 1458
- Gregorian23 February 2080
- Islamic2 Jumada al-Awwal 1503
- Imperial4 Esfand 2638
- Day of the year340 of 365
- Left in the year25 days
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Occasions on 4 Esfand 1458
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On this day: February 23
Events
- 1861 (165 years ago) President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1903 (123 years ago) Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
- 1934 (92 years ago) Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
- 1966 (60 years ago) In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
- 1991 (35 years ago) In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
- 2012 (14 years ago) A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
- 2021 (5 years ago) Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.
Births
- 1417 (609 years ago) Pope Paul II,
- 1443 (583 years ago) Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (died 1490)
- 1685 (341 years ago) George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (died 1759)
- 1868 (158 years ago) W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (died 1963)
- 1878 (148 years ago) Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist (died 1935)
- 1883 (143 years ago) Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1969)
- 1899 (127 years ago) Erich Kästner, German author and poet (died 1974)
- 1992 (34 years ago) Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
Deaths
- 1447 (579 years ago) Pope Eugene IV,
- 1792 (234 years ago) Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (born 1723)
- 1821 (205 years ago) John Keats, English poet (born 1795)
- 1848 (178 years ago) John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (born 1767)
- 1855 (171 years ago) Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1777)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (born 1857)
- 1955 (71 years ago) Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (born 1868)
- 1969 (57 years ago) Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (born 1902)