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5 Bahman 1491

Wednesday 5 Bahman 1491 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 25 January 2113, and 7 Rabi' al-Thani 1537 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

1348 (678 years ago) A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1575 (451 years ago) Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1918 (108 years ago) The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards) are established as the official army of independent Finland, and Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.
1971 (55 years ago) Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1979 (47 years ago) Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
1986 (40 years ago) The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1995 (31 years ago) The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1999 (27 years ago) A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

1627 (399 years ago) Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (died 1691)
1736 (290 years ago) Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1813)
1759 (267 years ago) Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (died 1796)
1874 (152 years ago) W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (died 1965)
1882 (144 years ago) Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (died 1941)
1933 (93 years ago) Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (died 2009)
1938 (88 years ago) Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (died 1980)
1978 (48 years ago) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian actor, comedian, and politician, 6th President of Ukraine

390 (1636 years ago) Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (born 329)
844 (1182 years ago) Pope Gregory IV,
1742 (284 years ago) Edmond Halley, English astronomer (born 1656)
1947 (79 years ago) Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (born 1899)
1990 (36 years ago) Ava Gardner, American actress (born 1922)
2005 (21 years ago) Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (born 1906)
2017 (9 years ago) John Hurt, English actor (born 1940)
2017 (9 years ago) Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and producer (born 1936)