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16 Aban 1459

Wednesday 16 Aban 1459 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 6 November 2080, and 23 Muharram 1504 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

963 (1063 years ago) Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto.
1860 (166 years ago) Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.
1900 (126 years ago) President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York.
1936 (90 years ago) Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
1976 (50 years ago) Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
1985 (41 years ago) Colombian conflict: leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
2016 (10 years ago) Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launch an offensive to capture the ISIL-held city of Raqqa.

1494 (532 years ago) Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566)
1661 (365 years ago) Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (died 1700)
1932 (94 years ago) François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)
1946 (80 years ago) Sally Field, American actress
1987 (39 years ago) Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
1988 (38 years ago) Emma Stone, American actress
1988 (38 years ago) Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer
1990 (36 years ago) André Schürrle, German footballer

1003 (1023 years ago) Pope John XVII,
1406 (620 years ago) Pope Innocent VII,
1672 (354 years ago) Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (born 1585)
1893 (133 years ago) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (born 1840)
1991 (35 years ago) Gene Tierney, American actress (born 1920)
2012 (14 years ago) Clive Dunn, English actor (born 1920)
2015 (11 years ago) Yitzhak Navon, Israeli author, playwright, and politician, 5th President of Israel (born 1921)
2025 (a year ago) James Watson, American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist (born 1928)