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23 Ordibehesht 1459
Sunday 23 Ordibehesht 1459 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 12 May 2080, and 21 Rajab 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
- Persian23 Ordibehesht 1459
- Gregorian12 May 2080
- Islamic21 Rajab 1503
- Imperial23 Ordibehesht 2639
- Day of the year54 of 365
- Left in the year311 days
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Occasions on 23 Ordibehesht 1459
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On this day: May 12
Events
- 1191 (835 years ago) Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus; she is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
- 1551 (475 years ago) National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
- 1797 (229 years ago) War of the First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte conquers Venice.
- 1846 (180 years ago) The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
- 1949 (77 years ago) Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
- 1965 (61 years ago) The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
- 2002 (24 years ago) Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since the Cuban Revolution.
Births
- 1803 (223 years ago) Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (died 1873)
- 1820 (206 years ago) Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician (died 1910)
- 1895 (131 years ago) Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (died 1986)
- 1907 (119 years ago) Katharine Hepburn, American actress (died 2003)
- 1910 (116 years ago) Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
- 1937 (89 years ago) George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (died 2008)
- 1977 (49 years ago) Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (died 2017)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Rishi Sunak, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deaths
- 1003 (1023 years ago) Sylvester II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 946)
- 1012 (1014 years ago) Sergius IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 970)
- 1700 (326 years ago) John Dryden, English poet, playwright, and critic (born 1631)
- 1884 (142 years ago) Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (born 1824)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (born 1867)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
- 1994 (32 years ago) Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (born 1902)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Irena Sendler, Polish nurse and humanitarian (born 1910)