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15 Mehr 1476

Sunday 15 Mehr 1476 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 6 October 2097, and 29 Jumada al-Thani 1521 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

1789 (237 years ago) French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
1884 (142 years ago) The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.
1934 (92 years ago) Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
1979 (47 years ago) Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1987 (39 years ago) Fiji becomes a republic.
1990 (36 years ago) Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.

1773 (253 years ago) Louis Philippe I of France,
1831 (195 years ago) Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1916)
1887 (139 years ago) Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (died 1965)
1903 (123 years ago) Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
1906 (120 years ago) Janet Gaynor, American actress (died 1984)
1914 (112 years ago) Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (died 2002)
1930 (96 years ago) Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (died 2000)
1931 (95 years ago) Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)

877 (1149 years ago) Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (born 823)
1892 (134 years ago) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809)
1912 (114 years ago) Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1829)
1951 (75 years ago) Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
1981 (45 years ago) Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
1989 (37 years ago) Bette Davis, American actress (born 1908)
2018 (8 years ago) Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933)
2020 (6 years ago) Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)