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21 Bahman 1422

Wednesday 21 Bahman 1422 in the Persian calendar is Wednesday, 10 February 2044, and 10 Rabi' al-Awwal 1466 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

1920 (106 years ago) About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
1940 (86 years ago) The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1954 (72 years ago) U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1972 (54 years ago) Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
2003 (23 years ago) France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2016 (10 years ago) South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
2018 (8 years ago) Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.

1890 (136 years ago) Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
1894 (132 years ago) Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
1898 (128 years ago) Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)
1902 (124 years ago) Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
1952 (74 years ago) Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
1967 (59 years ago) Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
1991 (35 years ago) Emma Roberts, American actress
1997 (29 years ago) Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress

1755 (271 years ago) Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689)
1829 (197 years ago) Pope Leo XII,
1837 (189 years ago) Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (born 1799)
1918 (108 years ago) Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1842)
1923 (103 years ago) Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
1939 (87 years ago) Pope Pius XI,
2005 (21 years ago) Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915)
2014 (12 years ago) Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)