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23 Khordad 1422
Saturday 23 Khordad 1422 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 13 June 2043, and 5 Rajab 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
- Persian23 Khordad 1422
- Gregorian13 June 2043
- Islamic5 Rajab 1465
- Imperial23 Khordad 2602
- Day of the year85 of 365
- Left in the year280 days
- ZodiacGemini
- YearPig
Occasions on 23 Khordad 1422
- international
On this day: June 13
Events
- 1525 (501 years ago) Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
- 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
- 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
- 1981 (45 years ago) At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1983 (43 years ago) Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
- 2000 (26 years ago) President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
- 2005 (21 years ago) The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of all charges for allegedly sexually abusing a child in 2003.
- 2012 (14 years ago) A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
Births
- 1773 (253 years ago) Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (died 1829)
- 1831 (195 years ago) James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (died 1879)
- 1865 (161 years ago) W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1939)
- 1888 (138 years ago) Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (died 1935)
- 1928 (98 years ago) John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
- 1944 (82 years ago) Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- 1959 (67 years ago) Klaus Iohannis, Romanian educator and politician, 5th President of Romania
- 1981 (45 years ago) Chris Evans, American actor and producer
Deaths
- 1231 (795 years ago) Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (born 1195)
- 1645 (381 years ago) Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (born 1584)
- 1886 (140 years ago) Ludwig II, king of Bavaria (born 1845)
- 1948 (78 years ago) Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (born 1909)
- 1965 (61 years ago) Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (born 1878)
- 1972 (54 years ago) Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
- 1986 (40 years ago) Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter and bandleader (born 1909)
- 2023 (3 years ago) Cormac McCarthy, American author (born 1933)