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1 Shahrivar 1388
Sunday 1 Shahrivar 1388 in the Persian calendar is Sunday, 23 August 2009, and 2 Ramadan 1430 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian1 Shahrivar 1388
- Gregorian23 August 2009
- Islamic2 Ramadan 1430
- Imperial1 Shahrivar 2568
- Day of the year156 of 365
- Left in the year209 days
- ZodiacVirgo
- YearOx
Occasions on 1 Shahrivar 1388
- national
- cultural
- cultural
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international
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
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international
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
- countries
On this day: August 23
Events
- 1572 (454 years ago) French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
- 1799 (227 years ago) Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol to the pact, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania are divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence".
- 1966 (60 years ago) Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- 1989 (37 years ago) Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
- 1990 (36 years ago) Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 (36 years ago) Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
- 2023 (3 years ago) Chandrayaan-3 mission initiates first Moon landing in Indian history.
Births
- 1754 (272 years ago) Louis XVI of France,
- 1769 (257 years ago) Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic (died 1832)
- 1867 (159 years ago) Edgar de Wahl, Ukrainian-Estonian linguist and academic (died 1948)
- 1912 (114 years ago) Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1996)
- 1921 (105 years ago) Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
- 1954 (72 years ago) Halimah Yacob, Singaporean unionist and politician, 9th Speaker and 8th President of Singapore
- 1974 (52 years ago) Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1978 (48 years ago) Kobe Bryant, American basketball player and businessman (died 2020)
Deaths
- 30 BC Caesarion, Egyptian king (born 47 BC)
- 634 (1392 years ago) Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (born 573)
- 1305 (721 years ago) William Wallace, Scottish knight and rebel leader (born c.1270)
- 1806 (220 years ago) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (born 1736)
- 1926 (100 years ago) Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (born 1895)
- 1933 (93 years ago) Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (born 1870)
- 1997 (29 years ago) John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
- 2023 (3 years ago) Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian businessman, chief of Wagner Group (born 1961)