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29 Bahman 1421
Wednesday 29 Bahman 1421 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 18 February 2043, and 7 Rabi' al-Awwal 1465 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.
This day in four calendars
- Persian29 Bahman 1421
- Gregorian18 February 2043
- Islamic7 Rabi' al-Awwal 1465
- Imperial29 Bahman 2601
- Day of the year335 of 365
- Left in the year30 days
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Occasions on 29 Bahman 1421
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On this day: February 18
Events
- 1229 (797 years ago) The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
- 1781 (245 years ago) Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
- 1873 (153 years ago) Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
- 1930 (96 years ago) While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
- 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
- 1957 (69 years ago) Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- 1965 (61 years ago) The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 2013 (13 years ago) Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
Births
- 1516 (510 years ago) Mary I, Queen of England (died 1558)
- 1745 (281 years ago) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (died 1827)
- 1836 (190 years ago) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi (died 1886)
- 1838 (188 years ago) Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1916)
- 1931 (95 years ago) Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019).
- 1933 (93 years ago) Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician
- 1954 (72 years ago) John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer
- 1965 (61 years ago) Dr. Dre, American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
Deaths
- 999 (1027 years ago) Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 972)
- 1294 (732 years ago) Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (born 1215)
- 1455 (571 years ago) Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (born 1395)
- 1546 (480 years ago) Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (born 1483)
- 1564 (462 years ago) Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475)
- 1851 (175 years ago) Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (born 1804)
- 1967 (59 years ago) J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (born 1904)
- 2025 (a year ago) Gene Hackman, award-winning American actor (born 1930)