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20 Bahman 1387
Sunday 20 Bahman 1387 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 8 February 2009, and 12 Safar 1430 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian20 Bahman 1387
- Gregorian8 February 2009
- Islamic12 Safar 1430
- Imperial20 Bahman 2567
- Day of the year326 of 366
- Left in the year40 days
- ZodiacAquarius
- YearRat
Occasions on 20 Bahman 1387
On this day: February 8
Events
- 1807 (219 years ago) Napoleon defeats the coalition forces of Russian General Bennigsen and Prussian General L'Estocq at the Battle of Eylau.
- 1865 (161 years ago) Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, delaying the criminalization of slavery until the amendment's national adoption on December 6, 1865. The amendment is ultimately ratified by Delaware on February 12, 1901, the 92nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
- 1946 (80 years ago) The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North and replaced by the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
- 1965 (61 years ago) Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing all 84 people on board.
- 1971 (55 years ago) South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration into the country.
- 2010 (16 years ago) Over 2 miles (3.2 km) of road are buried after a storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of avalanches, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 others.
- 2014 (12 years ago) A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia, kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
Births
- 1700 (326 years ago) Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1782)
- 1819 (207 years ago) John Ruskin, English author, critic, and academic (died 1900)
- 1828 (198 years ago) Jules Verne, French author, poet, and playwright (died 1905)
- 1834 (192 years ago) Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (died 1907)
- 1878 (148 years ago) Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and academic (died 1965)
- 1925 (101 years ago) Jack Lemmon, American actor (died 2001)
- 1931 (95 years ago) James Dean, American actor (died 1955)
- 1959 (67 years ago) Mauricio Macri, Argentinian businessman and politician, President of Argentina
Deaths
- 1265 (761 years ago) Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (born 1217)
- 1725 (301 years ago) Peter the Great, Russian emperor (born 1672)
- 1849 (177 years ago) France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (born 1800)
- 1921 (105 years ago) Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (born 1842)
- 1957 (69 years ago) John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (born 1903)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
- 1979 (47 years ago) Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
- 1998 (28 years ago) Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)