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15 Dey 1459
Saturday 15 Dey 1459 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 4 January 2081, and 23 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
- Persian15 Dey 1459
- Gregorian4 January 2081
- Islamic23 Rabi' al-Awwal 1504
- Imperial15 Dey 2639
- Day of the year291 of 365
- Left in the year74 days
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- YearRat
Occasions on 15 Dey 1459
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- international
- countries
On this day: January 4
Events
- 1762 (264 years ago) Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
- 1948 (78 years ago) Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic.
- 1951 (75 years ago) Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time.
- 1958 (68 years ago) Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
- 1959 (67 years ago) Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
- 2004 (22 years ago) Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
- 2008 (18 years ago) A Let L-410 Turbolet crashes in the Los Roques Archipelago in Venezuela, killing 14 people.
Births
- 1710 (316 years ago) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, violinist, and organist (died 1736)
- 1785 (241 years ago) Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (died 1863)
- 1809 (217 years ago) Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (died 1852)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Gao Xingjian, Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 (86 years ago) Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1963 (63 years ago) Till Lindemann, German singer, songwriter, and poet
- 1986 (40 years ago) James Milner, English footballer
- 1990 (36 years ago) Toni Kroos, German footballer
Deaths
- 1786 (240 years ago) Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (born 1729)
- 1877 (149 years ago) Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1794)
- 1920 (106 years ago) Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright (born 1843)
- 1941 (85 years ago) Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
- 1960 (66 years ago) Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
- 1961 (65 years ago) Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
- 1965 (61 years ago) T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Glynis Johns, British actress and singer (born 1923)