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5 Esfand 1465
Sunday 5 Esfand 1465 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 23 February 2087, and 19 Rajab 1510 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
- Persian5 Esfand 1465
- Gregorian23 February 2087
- Islamic19 Rajab 1510
- Imperial5 Esfand 2645
- Day of the year341 of 366
- Left in the year25 days
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Occasions on 5 Esfand 1465
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On this day: February 23
Events
- 1861 (165 years ago) President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1903 (123 years ago) Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
- 1934 (92 years ago) Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
- 1966 (60 years ago) In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
- 1991 (35 years ago) In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
- 2012 (14 years ago) A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
- 2021 (5 years ago) Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.
Births
- 1417 (609 years ago) Pope Paul II,
- 1443 (583 years ago) Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (died 1490)
- 1685 (341 years ago) George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (died 1759)
- 1868 (158 years ago) W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (died 1963)
- 1878 (148 years ago) Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist (died 1935)
- 1883 (143 years ago) Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (died 1969)
- 1899 (127 years ago) Erich Kästner, German author and poet (died 1974)
- 1992 (34 years ago) Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
Deaths
- 1447 (579 years ago) Pope Eugene IV,
- 1792 (234 years ago) Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (born 1723)
- 1821 (205 years ago) John Keats, English poet (born 1795)
- 1848 (178 years ago) John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (born 1767)
- 1855 (171 years ago) Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1777)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (born 1857)
- 1955 (71 years ago) Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (born 1868)
- 1969 (57 years ago) Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (born 1902)