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1 Esfand 1459
Wednesday 1 Esfand 1459 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 19 February 2081, and 9 Jumada 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
- Persian1 Esfand 1459
- Gregorian19 February 2081
- Islamic9 Jumada al-Awwal 1504
- Imperial1 Esfand 2639
- Day of the year337 of 365
- Left in the year28 days
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Occasions on 1 Esfand 1459
- cultural
On this day: February 19
Events
- 1937 (89 years ago) Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
- 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
- 1959 (67 years ago) The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
- 1978 (48 years ago) Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
- 1986 (40 years ago) Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
- 1989 (37 years ago) Flying Tiger Line Flight 066 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four.
- 2011 (15 years ago) The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
Births
- 1473 (553 years ago) Nicolaus Copernicus, Prussian mathematician and astronomer (died 1543)
- 1859 (167 years ago) Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)
- 1896 (130 years ago) André Breton, French poet and author (died 1966)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Saparmyrat Nyýazow, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (died 2006)
- 1941 (85 years ago) David Gross, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1953 (73 years ago) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine lawyer and politician, President of Argentina and Vice President of Argentina
- 1964 (62 years ago) Jennifer Doudna, American biochemist
- 2004 (22 years ago) Millie Bobby Brown, English actress, model and producer
Deaths
- 1897 (129 years ago) Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (born 1815)
- 1916 (110 years ago) Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (born 1838)
- 1951 (75 years ago) André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
- 1952 (74 years ago) Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
- 1997 (29 years ago) Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1904)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (born 1932)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Harper Lee, American author (born 1926)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (born 1933)