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19 Ordibehesht 1486
Monday 19 Ordibehesht 1486 in the Persian calendar is Monday, 9 May 2107, and 15 Jumada al-Awwal 1531 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
- Persian19 Ordibehesht 1486
- Gregorian9 May 2107
- Islamic15 Jumada al-Awwal 1531
- Imperial19 Ordibehesht 2666
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Occasions on 19 Ordibehesht 1486
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- fun
On this day: May 9
Events
- 1386 (640 years ago) England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
- 1877 (149 years ago) Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. The date will become recognised as the Independence Day of Romania.
- 1942 (84 years ago) The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
- 1969 (57 years ago) Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
- 1980 (46 years ago) In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 430-meter (1,400 ft) section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 46 metres (150 ft) into the water and die.
- 1992 (34 years ago) Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- 2001 (25 years ago) In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
- 2023 (3 years ago) The May 9 riots following the arrest of Imran Khan in Pakistan.
Births
- 1860 (166 years ago) J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (died 1937)
- 1874 (152 years ago) Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (died 1939)
- 1883 (143 years ago) José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic (died 1955)
- 1921 (105 years ago) Sophie Scholl, German activist (died 1943)
- 1927 (99 years ago) Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
- 1936 (90 years ago) Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (died 2023)
- 1949 (77 years ago) Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1955 (71 years ago) Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (died 2012)
Deaths
- 480 (1546 years ago) Julius Nepos, Western Roman Emperor
- 1805 (221 years ago) Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (born 1759)
- 1850 (176 years ago) Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (born 1778)
- 1931 (95 years ago) Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
- 1978 (48 years ago) Aldo Moro, Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1916)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (born 1914)
- 2015 (11 years ago) Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (born 1917)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Little Richard, American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1932)