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6 Mordad 1485

Wednesday 6 Mordad 1485 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 28 July 2106, and 26 Rajab 1530 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

1571 (455 years ago) La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines, is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
1794 (232 years ago) French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
1821 (205 years ago) José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1866 (160 years ago) At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
1911 (115 years ago) The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London.
1917 (109 years ago) Anti-lynching movement: The Silent Parade takes place in New York City, in protest against murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
2002 (24 years ago) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.

1804 (222 years ago) Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (died 1872)
1902 (124 years ago) Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1994)
1929 (97 years ago) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (died 1994)
1952 (74 years ago) Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
1954 (72 years ago) Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (died 2013)
1971 (55 years ago) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (died 2019)
1974 (52 years ago) Alexis Tsipras, Greek engineer and politician, 186th Prime Minister of Greece
1993 (33 years ago) Harry Kane, English footballer

450 (1576 years ago) Theodosius II, Roman emperor (born 401)
1057 (969 years ago) Victor II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1018)
1741 (285 years ago) Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (born 1678)
1750 (276 years ago) Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (born 1685)
1794 (232 years ago) Maximilien Robespierre, French politician, (born 1758)
1808 (218 years ago) Selim III, Ottoman sultan (born 1761)
1968 (58 years ago) Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)
2004 (22 years ago) Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)