Today in the Persian calendar
5 Mehr 1405
Sunday
Zodiac: Libra ♎
Year of the Horse
Sunday
Today's date: 5 Mehr 1405
Today is Sunday, 5 Mehr 1405 in the Persian calendar: 27 September 2026 in the Gregorian calendar and 15 Rabi' al-Thani 1448 in the Islamic calendar.
Day
5
Month
Mehr
Year
1405
Today in four calendars
Today in the Gregorian calendar
27 September 2026
Sunday
Today in the Islamic calendar
15 Rabi' al-Thani 1448
Today in the Imperial calendar
5 Mehr 2585
Years counted from the start of the reign of Cyrus the Great
Today at a glance
- Day 191 of the 365 days of 1405; 174 days are left in the year.
- Mehr is the seventh month of the year and has 30 days.
- Zodiac sign Libra ♎; in the twelve-year animal cycle, 1405 is the Year of the Horse.
Today's occasions
5 Mehr 1405- religious
- international
- countries
On this day: September 27
Events
- 1066 (960 years ago) William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
- 1540 (486 years ago) The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
- 1810 (216 years ago) The French army under André Masséna fails to break British forces under the Arthur Wellesley in the battle of Bussaco.
- 1821 (205 years ago) The Army of the Three Guarantees triumphantly enters Mexico City, led by Agustín de Iturbide. The following day Mexico is declared independent.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
- 1988 (38 years ago) The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
- 1998 (28 years ago) The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
- 2020 (6 years ago) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan launches an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.
Births
- 1601 (425 years ago) Louis XIII of France,
- 1871 (155 years ago) Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
- 1918 (108 years ago) Martin Ryle, English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
- 1972 (54 years ago) Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman
- 1976 (50 years ago) Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
- 1982 (44 years ago) Lil Wayne, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1984 (42 years ago) Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
- 2002 (24 years ago) Jenna Ortega, American actress
Deaths
- 1590 (436 years ago) Pope Urban VII,
- 1700 (326 years ago) Pope Innocent XII,
- 1891 (135 years ago) Ivan Goncharov, Russian author and critic (born 1812)
- 1917 (109 years ago) Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor (born 1834)
- 1940 (86 years ago) Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (born 1892)
- 2017 (9 years ago) Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises (born 1926)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Maggie Smith, English actress (born 1934)
- 2024 (2 years ago) Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese politician, 3rd Secretary-General of Hezbollah (born 1960)
Countdown to Nowruz 1406
174 days to go until Nowruz 1406. The exact moment of the new year