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17 Esfand 1401

Wednesday 17 Esfand 1401 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 8 March 2023, and 15 Sha'ban 1444 in the Islamic calendar.

Public holiday

This day in four calendars

1722 (304 years ago) The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad.
1844 (182 years ago) The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, is reopened after 45 years of closure.
1916 (110 years ago) World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces capture Rangoon, Burma from the British.
1949 (77 years ago) President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1963 (63 years ago) The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état.
2004 (22 years ago) A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2017 (9 years ago) The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather.

1714 (312 years ago) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (died 1788)
1822 (204 years ago) Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (died 1882)
1879 (147 years ago) Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
1886 (140 years ago) Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
1922 (104 years ago) Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (died 2008)
1937 (89 years ago) Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, President of Rwanda (died 1994)
1977 (49 years ago) James Van Der Beek, American actor (died 2026)
1990 (36 years ago) Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player

1403 (623 years ago) Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan (born 1360)
1702 (324 years ago) William III of England,
1723 (303 years ago) Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St. Paul's Cathedral (born 1632)
1869 (157 years ago) Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (born 1803)
1874 (152 years ago) Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (born 1800)
1923 (103 years ago) Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1837)
1930 (96 years ago) William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (born 1857)
1942 (84 years ago) José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (born 1888)