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Ordibehesht‌ or Ardibehesht (Persian: اردیبهشت, Persian pronunciation: [oɾdiːbeˈheʃt / æɾdiːbeˈheʃt])^[1] is the second month of the Zoroastrian calendar,^[1] which is used officially in Iran and Afghanistan. It has 31 days^[1] and spans the months of April and May in the Gregorian calendar. The Dari name for the month is Saur or Sowr.

Ordibehesht is the second month of the spring season (Bahar), and is followed by the month of Khordad.^[1]

Events

13, S.H. 1265 – Haymarket affair (first police confrontation against workers' groups in Chicago)
4, S.H. 1294 – Landing at Anzac Cove (part of the Gallipoli campaign of World War I)
19. S.H. 1299 - Kiev Victory Parade (1920)
5, S.H. 1324 – National Liberation Committee declares war against the Nazi-backed Italian Social Republic
18, S.H. 1324 – End of World War II in Europe
1, S.H. 1346 – Coup d'état in the Kingdom of Greece
3, S.H. 1353 – Carnation Revolution (in the Portuguese Empire)
10, S.H. 1354 – Fall of Saigon (part of the Vietnam War)
7, S.H. 1357 – Saur Revolution
6, S.H. 1365 – Chernobyl disaster (in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union)
22, S.H. 1377 – Fall of Suharto (1998 riots in Indonesia following the Trisakti shootings; Suharto resigns as Indonesian president on 31 Ordibehesht)
26, S.H. 1382 – 2003 Casablanca bombings (series of suicide bombings by Muslim militants in Morocco)

Day 2, S.H. 1373 – Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States
Day 17, S.H. 1391 – Iraj Ghaderi, Iranian film director and actor
Day 24, S.H. 1392 – Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani, Iranian Twelver Shia cleric

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