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9 Esfand 1463
Tuesday 9 Esfand 1463 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 27 February 2085, and 2 Rajab 1508 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
- Persian9 Esfand 1463
- Gregorian27 February 2085
- Islamic2 Rajab 1508
- Imperial9 Esfand 2643
- Day of the year345 of 365
- Left in the year20 days
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Occasions on 9 Esfand 1463
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On this day: February 27
Events
- 1560 (466 years ago) The Treaty of Berwick is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland, establishing the terms under which English armed forces were to be permitted in Scotland in order to expel occupying French troops.
- 1594 (432 years ago) Henry IV is crowned King of France.
- 1617 (409 years ago) Sweden and the Tsardom of Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
- 1801 (225 years ago) Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1943 (83 years ago) The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
- 1991 (35 years ago) Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
- 2004 (22 years ago) A bombing of a SuperFerry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills more than 100 passengers.
- 2010 (16 years ago) An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after.
Births
- 272 (1754 years ago) Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (died 337)
- 1807 (219 years ago) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (died 1882)
- 1897 (129 years ago) Marian Anderson, American singer (died 1993)
- 1902 (124 years ago) John Steinbeck, American journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Joanne Woodward, American actress
- 1932 (94 years ago) Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress and humanitarian (died 2011)
- 1942 (84 years ago) Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
- 1944 (82 years ago) Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (died 2020)
Deaths
- 1887 (139 years ago) Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (born 1833)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1849)
- 1989 (37 years ago) Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
- 1993 (33 years ago) Lillian Gish, American actress (born 1893)
- 2003 (23 years ago) Fred Rogers, American minister and television host (born 1928)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (born 1959)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Leonard Nimoy, American actor (born 1931)
- 2025 (a year ago) Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster (born 1937)