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16 Bahman 1415

Wednesday 16 Bahman 1415 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 4 February 2037, and 18 Dhu al-Hijjah 1458 in the Islamic calendar.

This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.

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This day in four calendars

1797 (229 years ago) The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1859 (167 years ago) The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1938 (88 years ago) Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
1948 (78 years ago) Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1976 (50 years ago) In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1992 (34 years ago) A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1997 (29 years ago) En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
2008 (18 years ago) Civic mobilizations in Colombia against FARC, under the name A million voices against the FARC.

1871 (155 years ago) Friedrich Ebert, German lawyer and politician, first President of Germany (died 1925)
1897 (129 years ago) Ludwig Erhard, German soldier and politician, second Chancellor of West Germany (died 1977)
1900 (126 years ago) Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (died 1977)
1902 (124 years ago) Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (died 1974)
1913 (113 years ago) Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (died 2005)
1923 (103 years ago) Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (died 2013)
1947 (79 years ago) Dan Quayle, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 44th Vice President of the United States
1948 (78 years ago) Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter

211 (1815 years ago) Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (born 145)
708 (1318 years ago) Pope Sisinnius,
1928 (98 years ago) Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1853)
1940 (86 years ago) Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (born 1895)
1974 (52 years ago) Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1894)
1987 (39 years ago) Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic (born 1902)
2006 (20 years ago) Betty Friedan, American author and activist (born 1921)
2020 (6 years ago) Daniel arap Moi, Former President of Kenya (born 1924)