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23 Azar 1387

Saturday 23 Azar 1387 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 13 December 2008, and 14 Dhu al-Hijjah 1429 in the Islamic calendar.

This day in four calendars

1642 (384 years ago) Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
1938 (88 years ago) The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1939 (87 years ago) The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of World War II. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles and HMS Exeter.
1949 (77 years ago) The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
1960 (66 years ago) While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
1974 (52 years ago) Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1982 (44 years ago) The 6.0 Ms North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.
2002 (24 years ago) European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.

1521 (505 years ago) Pope Sixtus V,
1553 (473 years ago) Henry IV of France,
1797 (229 years ago) Heinrich Heine, German journalist, poet, and critic (died 1856)
1929 (97 years ago) Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor and producer (died 2021)
1953 (73 years ago) Ben Bernanke, American economist
1957 (69 years ago) Steve Buscemi, American actor and director
1967 (59 years ago) Jamie Foxx, American actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and comedian
1989 (37 years ago) Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter

1124 (902 years ago) Pope Callixtus II,
1204 (822 years ago) Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (born 1135)
1250 (776 years ago) Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1194)
1466 (560 years ago) Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1386)
1784 (242 years ago) Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (born 1709)
1931 (95 years ago) Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (born 1840)
1935 (91 years ago) Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)
1944 (82 years ago) Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (born 1866)