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3 Mordad 1466
Friday 3 Mordad 1466 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 25 July 2087, and 24 Dhu al-Hijjah 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.
Friday
This day in four calendars
- Persian3 Mordad 1466
- Gregorian25 July 2087
- Islamic24 Dhu al-Hijjah 1510
- Imperial3 Mordad 2646
- Day of the year127 of 365
- Left in the year238 days
- ZodiacLeo
- YearSheep
Occasions on 3 Mordad 1466
- religious
- cultural
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international
International Afro-Latina, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women's Day
- countries
- countries
- fun
On this day: July 25
Events
- 1567 (459 years ago) Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1788 (238 years ago) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1799 (227 years ago) Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir.
- 1824 (202 years ago) Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1973 (53 years ago) Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- 1993 (33 years ago) Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
- 1994 (32 years ago) Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
Births
- 1109 (917 years ago) Afonso I, king of Portugal (died 1185)
- 1165 (861 years ago) Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (died 1240)
- 1848 (178 years ago) Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
- 1894 (132 years ago) Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian Serb revolutionary and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (died 1918)
- 1905 (121 years ago) Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
- 1920 (106 years ago) Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic. Contributor to basic research of DNA. (died 1958)
- 1956 (70 years ago) Frances Arnold, American scientist and engineer (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018)
- 1967 (59 years ago) Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
Deaths
- 306 (1720 years ago) Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (born 250)
- 1471 (555 years ago) Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic
- 1492 (534 years ago) Innocent VIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1432)
- 1564 (462 years ago) Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1503)
- 1834 (192 years ago) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English philosopher, poet, and critic (born 1772)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (born 1888)
- 1980 (46 years ago) Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1938)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Beji Caid Essebsi, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1926)