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17 Aban 1385
Wednesday 17 Aban 1385 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 8 November 2006, and 16 Shawwal 1427 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian17 Aban 1385
- Gregorian8 November 2006
- Islamic16 Shawwal 1427
- Imperial17 Aban 2565
- Day of the year233 of 365
- Left in the year132 days
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Occasions on 17 Aban 1385
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On this day: November 8
Events
- 1923 (103 years ago) Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- 1936 (90 years ago) Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the three-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
- 1939 (87 years ago) In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
- 1950 (76 years ago) Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
- 1997 (29 years ago) Eritrea adopts the nakfa as its official currency.
- 2004 (22 years ago) Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD; equivalent to $3.95 billion in 2025) in damage.
- 2016 (10 years ago) Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination.
Births
- 30 (1996 years ago) Nerva, Roman emperor (died 98)
- 1656 (370 years ago) Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (died 1742)
- 1847 (179 years ago) Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (died 1912)
- 1848 (178 years ago) Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1925)
- 1900 (126 years ago) Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (died 1949)
- 1935 (91 years ago) Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter (died 2024)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer
- 1986 (40 years ago) Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (died 2013)
Deaths
- 397 (1629 years ago) Martin of Tours, Frankish bishop and saint
- 618 (1408 years ago) Adeodatus I, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1308 (718 years ago) Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (born 1266)
- 1674 (352 years ago) John Milton, English poet and philosopher (born 1608)
- 1953 (73 years ago) Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890)
- 1998 (28 years ago) Jean Marais, French actor and director (born 1913)
- 2009 (17 years ago) Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)