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19 Mordad 1483

Sunday 19 Mordad 1483 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 10 August 2104, and 18 Rajab 1528 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

1519 (507 years ago) Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
1913 (113 years ago) Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1953 (73 years ago) First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
1988 (38 years ago) Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
1997 (29 years ago) Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
1998 (28 years ago) HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
2009 (17 years ago) Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
2019 (7 years ago) Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.

1810 (216 years ago) Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (died 1861)
1874 (152 years ago) Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
1912 (114 years ago) Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (died 2001)
1913 (113 years ago) Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
1951 (75 years ago) Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian businessman and politician, 59th President of Colombia
1960 (66 years ago) Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor and producer
1973 (53 years ago) Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
1997 (29 years ago) Kylie Jenner, American television personality and businesswoman

258 (1768 years ago) Lawrence of Rome, Spanish-Italian deacon and saint (born 225)
1759 (267 years ago) Ferdinand VI of Spain,
1896 (130 years ago) Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (born 1848)
1915 (111 years ago) Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (born 1887)
1945 (81 years ago) Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and engineer (born 1882)
1980 (46 years ago) Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (born 1917)
2008 (18 years ago) Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (born 1942)
2019 (7 years ago) Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and child sex trafficker (born 1953)