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2 Ordibehesht 1459
Sunday 2 Ordibehesht 1459 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 21 April 2080, and 30 Jumada al-Thani 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.
This day in four calendars
- Persian2 Ordibehesht 1459
- Gregorian21 April 2080
- Islamic30 Jumada al-Thani 1503
- Imperial2 Ordibehesht 2639
- Day of the year33 of 365
- Left in the year332 days
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Occasions on 2 Ordibehesht 1459
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On this day: April 21
Events
- 1782 (244 years ago) The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
- 1796 (230 years ago) War of the First Coalition: In the climax of the Montenotte Campaign, Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeats the army of Piedmont at the Battle of Mondovi, leading to Piedmont's surrender a week later and decisively turning the Italian campaign in France's favor.
- 1809 (217 years ago) Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
- 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
- 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
- 1960 (66 years ago) Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
- 1967 (59 years ago) A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.
- 1975 (51 years ago) Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
Births
- 1774 (252 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1862)
- 1816 (210 years ago) Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1855)
- 1864 (162 years ago) Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (died 1920)
- 1882 (144 years ago) Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
- 1915 (111 years ago) Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (died 2001)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms (died 2022)
- 1947 (79 years ago) Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1979 (47 years ago) James McAvoy, Scottish actor
Deaths
- 1109 (917 years ago) Anselm of Canterbury, Italian-English archbishop and saint (born 1033)
- 1142 (884 years ago) Peter Abelard, French philosopher and theologian (born 1079)
- 1699 (327 years ago) Jean Racine, French playwright and poet (born 1639)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (born 1835)
- 1938 (88 years ago) Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani National philosopher and poet (born 1877)
- 1946 (80 years ago) John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (born 1883)
- 2016 (10 years ago) Prince, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1958)
- 2025 (a year ago) Pope Francis,