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15 Esfand 1478
Friday 15 Esfand 1478 in the Persian calendar is Friday, 5 March 2100, and 23 Dhu al-Hijjah 1523 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.
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This day in four calendars
- Persian15 Esfand 1478
- Gregorian5 March 2100
- Islamic23 Dhu al-Hijjah 1523
- Imperial15 Esfand 2658
- Day of the year351 of 366
- Left in the year15 days
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Occasions on 15 Esfand 1478
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On this day: March 5
Events
- 1824 (202 years ago) First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
- 1933 (93 years ago) Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
- 1953 (73 years ago) Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
- 1965 (61 years ago) March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against the British colonial presence.
- 1974 (52 years ago) Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 1978 (48 years ago) The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- 2012 (14 years ago) Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
Births
- 1133 (893 years ago) Henry II of England,
- 1512 (514 years ago) Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (died 1594)
- 1871 (155 years ago) Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (died 1919)
- 1898 (128 years ago) Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1976)
- 1922 (104 years ago) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1975)
- 1934 (92 years ago) Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
- 1970 (56 years ago) Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian president
- 1974 (52 years ago) Eva Mendes, American model and actress
Deaths
- 254 (1772 years ago) Pope Lucius I,
- 1827 (199 years ago) Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)
- 1827 (199 years ago) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (born 1745)
- 1893 (133 years ago) Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (born 1828)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1891)
- 1966 (60 years ago) Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (born 1889)
- 2013 (13 years ago) Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1954)