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28 Azar 1459

Wednesday 28 Azar 1459 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 18 December 2080, and 6 Rabi' al-Awwal 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

1271 (755 years ago) Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1622 (404 years ago) Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
1867 (159 years ago) A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.
1935 (91 years ago) The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
2005 (21 years ago) The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
2006 (20 years ago) The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
2006 (20 years ago) United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.

1856 (170 years ago) J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1863 (163 years ago) Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria,
1878 (148 years ago) Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician,General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1953)
1913 (113 years ago) Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
1946 (80 years ago) Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
1963 (63 years ago) Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
1980 (46 years ago) Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
2001 (25 years ago) Billie Eilish, American singer

1737 (289 years ago) Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (born 1644)
1803 (223 years ago) Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (born 1744)
1829 (197 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (born 1744)
1892 (134 years ago) Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (born 1804)
1932 (94 years ago) Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (born 1850)
1995 (31 years ago) Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (born 1910)
2011 (15 years ago) Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (born 1936)
2016 (10 years ago) Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (born 1917)